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Our Favorite Patriotic Tunes, Part 3: Calling on God

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the skies will be filled with not only fireworks but song. Those great patriotic tunes we all know by heart, even when we can’t hit all the notes.

Though the songs may be as familiar as the red, white, and blue, the stories behind them often are not. In Part 1, we dove into the duel between “God Bless America” and “This Land Is Your Land.”Part 2, we looked at three patriotic classics we swiped from Britain.

In Part 3, we close where America began: on its knees, acknowledging the source of its strength.

‘God Bless America’ Revisited

We’ve already talked about how “God Bless America” came about. But we didn’t talk about the star of the song. The One central to the American story and so many of our favorite patriotic classics. That is, as the declaration describes Him, “our Creator,” whose “Divine Providence” guides our nation’s fortunes.

The chorus of “God Bless America” is a prayer, a call out to God to bless this land, to “stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.”

George Washington was no Irving Berlin—then again, Irving Berlin didn’t put a whippin’ on the world’s most powerful army—but hear General Washington express the same prayer for America in his Circular Letter to the States in June 1783:

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I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice,........

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