Does a country's past have any thing to do with its present, and future?

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Source: Kraske, R. (1972). America the Beautiful: Stories of Patriotic Songs

Patriotic Songs

Yankee Doodle tells the challenges of a British sergeant's (1755; French vs. North American) struggle to teach white North Americans soldiers how to march together – to experience something new.  An army doctor, Dr. Richard Shuckburg, suggested using a song to keep the soldiers in step. First, the British verses were changed to fit the needs of the American soldiers. The Americans began to despise the song when it sung by the British. In a sense, you could say that the Boston Massacre actually occurred because of this song. North Americans stole the song during the American Revolution. Today, it is considered the first of America’s most patriotic songs.

Star-Spangled Banner actually was sung by an English melody “To Anocreon in Heaven.” It was voted by a small group of schoolchildren as America’s national anthem. Unfortunately, the writer, Francis Scott Key, died (1843) and wasn’t around when the song was adopted (March 3, 1931) by President Herber Hoover.

America verses were written by a white, North American, aspiring minister for schoolchildren. He wrote the verses on a scrap sheet of paper that he had earlier tossed into a nearby wastebasket. Oddly, the aspiring minister did not know that it was already a melody in Europe when he wrote America’s verses. The poem is sung by the tune of a German anthem song – “Heil Dir im Siegerkranz’ or ‘God Save the King (England anthem song).”

Dixie verses were written by a white Northerner of North America who enjoyed times in the South. Dan D. Emmett inspired the independent South to adopt there own patriotic song. The song was also used as a war of verses between its Northern and Southern singers. These individuals changed its verses to fit the events of the Civil War. It was also former-president Abe Lincoln’s favorite song.

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