Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this mini-tune survey, it seems Sandburg is drawn ti this version of "America." I can see why, God Bless Our Native Land is more inclusive, jettisoning the "land of the pilgrim's pride." And also the opposite of "nationalistic."
-Sandburg writes: “Neglect and unkindly neglect has been accorded verses written for the tune of "America" or "My Country ‘Tis of Thee." A text of three verses, was published in "The Bugle Call," "a collection of the most celebrated war songs, published by the John Church Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886."
“Curiously enough, the third verse of this song published in 1886 is, with very slight variation, the same as the new verse now embodied in the British national anthem. The name of the author was not given, but what he wrote will be accepted by some Americans as a better poem than the one printed in all the textbooks and songbooks.”
In this mini-tune survey, it seems Sandburg is drawn ti this version of "America." I can see why, God Bless Our Native Land is more inclusive, jettisoning the "land of the pilgrim's pride." And also the opposite of "nationalistic."
-Sandburg writes: “Neglect and unkindly neglect has been accorded verses written for the tune of "America" or "My Country ‘Tis of Thee." A text of three verses, was published in "The Bugle Call," "a collection of the most celebrated war songs, published by the John Church Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886."
“Curiously enough, the third verse of this song published in 1886 is, with very slight variation, the same as the new verse now embodied in the British national anthem. The name of the author was not given, but what he wrote will be accepted by some Americans as a better poem than the one printed in all the textbooks and songbooks.”
