Patriotic Songs

[Jldubu]

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

[frankelf]

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?

[KingOfSwing]

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.

[Gigster]

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.

[pdxdjazz]

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

[rjschmitt]

Marine's Hymn - Jacques Offenbach

[rjschmitt]

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

[pdxdjazz]

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

[Brogroove]

Very helpful, thanks!

[pdxdjazz]

Today in the US is Veterans Day.
Gratitude
)BOB