{"id":9343,"date":"2022-01-01T05:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2022-01-05T03:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:32:28","slug":"my-country-tis-of-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9343","title":{"rendered":"My Country, &#8216;Tis of Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/My_Country.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"video\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/My_Country.mp3\"><br \/>\nMy Country, &#8216;Tis of Thee &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\"><\/div>\n<p>An American patriotic song written by Samuel F. Smith while a student at the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts in 1831. The tune is the same as the British anthem &#8220;God Save The Queen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>My Country, &#8216;Tis of Thee<\/p>\n<p>My country &#8217;tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim&#8217;s pride.<\/p>\n<p>From every mountain side let freedom ring!<\/p>\n<p>My native country, thee, land of the noble free, Thy name I love.<br \/>\nI love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills.<\/p>\n<p>My heart with rapture thrills like that above.<\/p>\n<p>Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom&#8217;s song.<\/p>\n<p>Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake.<\/p>\n<p>Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.<\/p>\n<p>Our father&#8217;s God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing.<\/p>\n<p>Long may our land be bright with freedom&#8217;s holy light.<\/p>\n<p>Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this mp3? mp3: My Country, &#8216;Tis of Thee &#8211; Click To Play An American patriotic song written by Samuel F. Smith while a student at the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts in 1831. The tune is the same as the British anthem &#8220;God Save The Queen.&#8221; Lyrics: My Country, &#8216;Tis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Country, &#8216;Tis of Thee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}