Lovely Lyrics
You know “The Star-Spangled Banner” well enough to mumble along, but how well do you know the lyrics to some other patriotic tunes? Here are four of the best-loved patriotic songs - can you match each one to some of its lesser-known lyrics? We’ve started out with some easy ones, to build your confidence.
Songs
A. “America the Beautiful”
B. “America”
C. “The Star-Spangled Banner”
D. “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Lyrics
1. “Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight”
2. “My country ’tis of thee/Sweet land of liberty/Of thee I sing”
3. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”
4. “I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps”
5. “May God thy gold refine/Till all successes be nobleness/And ev’ry gain divine”
6. “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand/Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!”
7. “I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps”
8. “Let music swell the breeze/And ring from all the trees/Sweet freedom’s song”
9. “I love thy rocks and rills/Thy woods and templed hills”
10. “Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam/In full glory reflected now shines in the stream”
Answers: 1. C; 2. B; 3. D; 4. D; 5. A; 6. C; 7. D; 8. B; 9. B; 10. C