Lyr ADD: This Is My Country

07 Jan 99 - 03:53 PM (#52589)
Subject: This Is My Country
From: Diane L. Marshall

A friend gave me only these words and I may be wrong but it sounds like an opening verse for "This is My Country" before one gets to the song.

I'd like to climb to the top of a mountain so high,
Lift my head to the sky, say, how happy am I--
For the way that I'm living and working and giving,
And helping the land I hold dear

Anyone help me with this? my e-mail is [e-mail] Best to reach me there most often. Thanks, Diane

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07 Jan 99 - 07:52 PM (#52650)
Subject: RE: This Is My Country
From: katlaughing

Diane - the only one I can think was sung a lot in the 60's by Up With People type groups. The words I remember started with "This is my country, Home of the Free" then later, "American the beautiful"

I can hum the tune, but no more words.

sorry,

katlaughing

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07 Jan 99 - 08:05 PM (#52653)
Subject: Lyr Add: THIS IS MY COUNTRY (Raye, Jacobs)
From: Joe Offer

Can't find the verse, but my trusty Hal Leonard fakebook has this much.
-Joe Offer-

This Is My Country
Words by Don Raye, Music by Al Jacobs
Copyright, 1940, Shawnee Press, Inc.

This is my country
Land of my birth.
This is my country
Grandest on earth!
I pledge thee my allegiance. America the bold.
For this is my country, to have and to hold.

This is my country
Land of my choice.
This is my country
Hear my proud voice!
I pledge thee my allegiance. America the bold.
For this is my country, to have and to hold.

Didn't Kate Smith make this popular? Yeah, I think it was on her Jingoism Jubilee LP.

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08 Jan 99 - 07:51 PM (#52891)
Subject: RE: This Is My Country
From:

Thanks everyone for your help.

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15 Jan 99 - 12:28 AM (#54165)
Subject: Lyr Add: THIS IS MY COUNTRY (Raye, Jacobs)
From: Joe Offer

OK, here's a choral version, with verses, from the liner notes of the Windham Hill Voices CD, a collection of choral music. Not the same as you recall, though, Diane. Maybe there are various recitatives that have been used at the beginning.

This Is My Country
Words by Don Raye, Music by Al Jacobs
Copyright, 1940, Shawnee Press, Inc.

What difference if I hail from North or South
Or from the East or West?
My heart is filled with love for all of these
I only know I swell with pride and deep within my breast
I thrill to see Old Glory paint the breeze.

With hand upon my heart I thank the Lord
For this, my native land
For all I know is here within her gates
My soul is rooted deeply in the soil
For these are mine, my own United States.

This is my country, land of my birth
This is my country, grandest on earth
I pledge thee my allegiance, America the bold
For this is my Country, to have and to hold.

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