{"id":10485,"date":"2022-06-14T00:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T00:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:56:10","slug":"america-my-country-tis-of-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/america-my-country-tis-of-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"America &#8211; My Country tis of Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[D] My country [A] 'tis of thee, [D] sweet land of liberty, [A] of thee I [D] sing.  \r\n[D] Land where my fathers died, [A] land of the pilgrim's pride.  [D] From every mountain side let [A] freedom [D] ring!\r\n \r\nMy native country, thee, land of the noble free, Thy name I love.  \r\nI love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills.  My heart with rapture thrills like that above.\r\n \r\nLet music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song.  \r\nLet mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake.  Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.\r\n \r\nOur father's God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing.  \r\nLong may our land be bright with freedom's holy light.  Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King!<\/span><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"vxv2A\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\"> <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_3\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [D] My country [A] &#8217;tis of thee, [D] sweet land of liberty, [A] of thee I [D] sing. [D] Land where my fathers died, [A] land of the pilgrim&#8217;s pride. [D] From every mountain side let [A] freedom [D] ring! My native country, thee, land of the noble free, &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/america-my-country-tis-of-thee\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America &#8211; My Country tis of Thee<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,13,116,117,115,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-patriotic-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}