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"Brave America"
Early American Songs of War and Peace
Compiled by Roger L. Hall
AMRC CD 0044
Protest to Constition (1770-1789)
1. +Brave America
(aka: The New Massachusetts Liberty Song)
tune: THE BRITISH GRENADIERS -
words by Dr. Joseph Warren, 1770Though the song is now usually titled "Free America" it was
originally titled "The New Massachusetts Liberty Song" and
here is the first verse :That Seat of Science Athens, and Earth's great Mistress Rome,
Where now are all their Glories, we scarce can find their Tomb:
Then guard your Rights, AMERICANS! nor stoop to lawless Sway,
Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose, my BRAVE AMERICA.
2. +Father and I went down to camp (tune: YANKEE DOODLE)-
original words by Edward Bangs, Harvard College, 1776
arranged by William A. Fisher3. Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier - ballad, ca. 1776
4. Chester - William Billings, 1778
5. +Thanksgiving Hymn - tune: William Billings, 1778
words by unknown author
written for the end of the American Revolution, ca. 1783
edited by Roger L. Hall
6. +Ode to President George Washington -
words: Samuel Low,1789
Sung at Washington's Inauguration in New York
tune: GOD SAVE THE KING/edited by Roger L. Hall
Singing-Masters and Second U.S. President (1790-1798)
7. Anthem for Thanksgiving - William Billings, 1794
8. Coronation - Oliver Holden, 1792
(one of the only early American hymns still sung in churches)
9. +Victory - Daniel Read, 1793
10. Adams and Liberty (tune: TO ANACREON)
text: Thomas R.T. Paine, 1798
Patriotism and Revivalism (1814-1848)
11. +The Star-Spangled Banner -
words: Francis Scott Key, 1814
(1860 choral version)12. +Simple Gifts - Elder Joseph Brackett, 1848/ edited by Roger Hall
The Civil War: North and South (1861-1865)
13. +John Brown and Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1861-1862-
14. The Bonnie Blue Flag - words: Harry McCarthy,1861
15. Go Down, Moses - Afro-American Spiritual, ca. 1862
16. Farewell, Father Friend and Guardian - words: L.M. Dawn
music" George F. Root, 1865 (Funeral hymn for Abraham Lincoln)
National Peace Jubilee and U.S. Centennial (1869-1876)17. Chorus: Hymn of Peace - words: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,
music: Matthias Keller (American Hymn) - first performance at
the Grand National Peace Jubilee in Boston in 186918. +Cantata: Centennial Meditation of Columbia - text: Sidney Lanier,
music: Dudley Buck - composed for the U.S. Centennial in 1876+ = First recording
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