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    Default Patriotic Songs

    Tunes for the 4th of July and other patriotic events?
    God bless America : God Bless America
    God bless the USA : God Bless The USA
    America the beautiful :America the Beautiful
    Star Spangled Banner :Star Spangled Banner, The

    Military Service songs
    Sousa
    Last edited by Jldubu; 07-03-2012 at 12:30 PM.

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    I don't see tunes anywhere in iReal b, just chords. For tunes, get the Real Books, I suggest. Patriotic tunes are easy to pick up by ear. Is this what you were referring to?

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    Never subject yourself to the mercy of a fake book. Learn all melodies by ear and they will stick more solidly and for the rest of your life.

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    I'm brand-new to this forum. Looking for America the beautiful, re-harmonized with some really lush jazz voicings. I don't know where to begin to search for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gigster View Post
    I'm brand-new to this forum. Looking for America the beautiful, re-harmonized with some really lush jazz voicings. I don't know where to begin to search for that.
    Here's a start:
    America the Beautiful 1 - Katherine Bates


    Lyrics I didn't learn in school:
    "Oh beautiful, for pilgrims feet...."

    *
    America the Beautiful
    Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
    Melody by Samuel Ward
    *
    O beautiful for spacious skies,
    For amber waves of grain,
    For purple mountain majesties
    Above the fruited plain!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    And crown thy good with brotherhood
    From sea to shining sea!

    O beautiful for pilgrim feet
    Whose stern impassioned stress
    A thoroughfare of freedom beat
    Across the wilderness!
    America! America!
    God mend thine every flaw,
    Confirm thy soul in self-control,
    Thy liberty in law!

    O beautiful for heroes proved
    In liberating strife.
    Who more than self their country loved
    And mercy more than life!
    America! America!
    May God thy gold refine
    Till all success be nobleness
    And every gain divine!

    O beautiful for patriot dream
    That sees beyond the years
    Thine alabaster cities gleam
    Undimmed by human tears!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    And crown thy good with brotherhood
    From sea to shining sea!

    O beautiful for halcyon skies,
    For amber waves of grain,
    For purple mountain majesties
    Above the enameled plain!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    Till souls wax fair as earth and air
    And music-hearted sea!

    O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
    Whose stem impassioned stress
    A thoroughfare for freedom beat
    Across the wilderness!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    Till paths be wrought through
    wilds of thought
    By pilgrim foot and knee!

    O beautiful for glory-tale
    Of liberating strife
    When once and twice,
    for man's avail
    Men lavished precious life!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    Till selfish gain no longer stain
    The banner of the free!

    O beautiful for patriot dream
    That sees beyond the years
    Thine alabaster cities gleam
    Undimmed by human tears!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    Till nobler men keep once again
    Thy whiter jubilee!

    From: http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/ame...beautiful.html

    )BOB
    Last edited by pdxdjazz; 11-29-2013 at 02:55 AM.

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    Default Patriotic Songs

    Marine's Hymn - Jacques Offenbach

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    Patriotic medley (22)

    Individual songs:
    Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin
    America, the Beautiful - Katherine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward
    This is a Great Country -- - Irving Berlin
    This Land Is Your Land (Ultimate Fake Book) - Woody Guthrie
    American Patrol - F. W. Meacham
    My Country 'Tis of Thee (America) - Samuel Francis Smith and Thesaurus Musicus
    Battle Hymn of the Republic - Julia Ward Howe
    Yankee Doodle - Traditional
    Yankee Doodle Boy - George M. Cohan
    You're A Grand Old Flag - George M. Cohan
    Army Goes Rolling Along (Caissons), The - Edmund L. Gruber
    Marine's Hymn - Jacques Offenbach
    Anchors Aweigh (alternative) - Zimmerman, Miles (1906)
    U.S. Air Force (Air Force Hymn) - Robert Crawford
    Semper Paratus (Coast Guard Song) - F. S. Van Boskerck
    Star Spangled Banner (alternate) - John Stafford Smith
    Johnny Come Marching Home Again - Louis Lambert (Patrick Gilmore)
    We Shall Overcome (Alternate) - Louise Shropshire
    Stars and Stripes Forever, The - John Philip Sousa
    Over There - George M. Cohan
    This is my country - Al Jacobs
    God Bless America -- - Irving Berlin

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    Great Memorial Day playlist.
    Thanks for your work.
    )BOB

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    Very helpful, thanks!

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    Today in the US is Veterans Day.
    Gratitude
    )BOB

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