The Best American Patriotic Song

[TomCat84]

"This Land Is Your Land"

All other patriotic songs are tunes about war or are either blatant or cleverly disguised nationalist propaganda.

Oh for chrissake Nancy, does someone piss in your corn flakes EVERY day?

 

[D_Harvey Schmeckel]

This Land is Your Land is my favorite.

 

[Sergeant_Torpedo]

You create a thread about patriotic songs and you don't want political debate.

 

[D_Bob_Crotchitch]

Tomcat you need to go back and restudy your history. GB fully intended to take the colonies back. The one thing that saved us was Napolean was active in Europe, and GB could not afford to send an even greater number of troops to North America.

 

[798686]

Tomcat you need to go back and restudy your history. GB fully intended to take the colonies back. The one thing that saved us was Napolean was active in Europe, and GB could not afford to send an even greater number of troops to North America.

Ah well...at least we sorted ol Boney out - and the colonials havent done too badly on their own.

 

[crescendo69]

Get your fat ass back here! :tongue:

After he sang, he asked some boy scouts, "Anyone wanna see my Purple Heart?":biggrin1:

 

[Stretch]

Well...if one has to be patriotic, and I mean IF...then I guess one could do worse then this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

(I'd love to hear what Ray Charles could do with it) :smile:

 

[TomCat84]

Tomcat you need to go back and restudy your history. GB fully intended to take the colonies back. The one thing that saved us was Napolean was active in Europe, and GB could not afford to send an even greater number of troops to North America.

Maybe they held hopes of taking back the colonies, but they knew that was never going to happen. Where in hell do you get your history from?

 

[TomCat84]

After he sang, he asked some boy scouts, "Anyone wanna see my Purple Heart?":biggrin1:

HA. Where's the muscly armed paper boy?

 

[lurker37160]

I like Toby Keith's boot-in-the-ass song.

 

[TomCat84]

Found an oldie but a goodie

Whitney Houston sings national anthem during 1991 Super Bowl in Tampa, FL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1QmeEdFOSc

 

[THEDUDEofDestiny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-YnV0e3Lc

Just a great song about the folks who made america great as well as being a great anti-hitler song written before the war was fought


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf29IIQuqYk

this is just about the best tribute to the military ever written about a conversation between a veteran of the pacific theatre and his grandson about what war really is

 

[Mr. Snakey]

Randy Newman - Sail Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPvnYIOKP8

Harry Chapin - What made America Famous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TpB2_NTcIM

When The Boys Come Marching Home - David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dUij_JU6RI

 

[slurper_la]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V6FAoTLc

 

[maxcok]

I'm gonna take the traditional nostalgic route.

I've always liked "America The Beautiful." Simple, poetic, and MUCH easier to sing than "Star Spangled Banner."

Ray Charles version, yes! :smile:

Ask and ye shall receive: America, The Beautiful : Ray Charles

My top pick. I've often wondered what our national psyche might be and what direction we might have gone if this were our national anthem. If at the start of every ball game and civic event, instead of singing about war, rockets, and bombs bursting in air; we sang about mountains majesty, brotherhood, and patriot dreams.

I've always been partial to Stars & Stripes Forever; it reminds me of childhood parades, sparklers on the dock of my grandmother's lakefront summer house in Moultonborough, NH and simpler times in general.

^ I completely relate. This to me is the ultimate 4th of July fireworks music.

And for the grand finale, the incomparable Kate Smith - God Bless America

..:usa2:

 

[maxcok]

I guess I can't undertand much... but I am not looking for political debate. I just what was hoping there was some unification in our differences. I really wish we could love one another. I really do,

I love you, baby. :smlove2:

 

[798686]

The Brits kinda like your national anthem, oddly enuff. It was played at the changing of the guard after 9/11 (unheard of for a foreign anthem to get an airing).

Here's a version by a British string quartet - kinda easy-listening but nice.

 

[maxcok]

The Brits kinda like your national anthem, oddly enuff. It was played at the changing of the guard after 9/11 (unheard of for a foreign anthem to get an airing).

Here's a version by a British string quartet - kinda easy-listening but nice.

Not surprising the Brits would like our national anthem, it's kind of a pigeon coming home to roost. Oddly, the Star Spangled Banner poem, written by Francis Scott Key, was set to the tune of an English drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven," written by John Stafford Smith with words by Ralph Tomlinson, circa 1780. Maybe another good reason to switch to "America the Beautiful".

Guess it just shows that, try as they might, the colonists could not escape their Anglophile heritage. I wonder how the Queen feels about drinking songs being played at the changing of her guard.

the melody of "The Star Spangled Banner"

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[798686]

Amused probably. Her and Prince Philip have been known to like the odd dram...

 

[Bbucko]

Here's a version by a British string quartet - kinda easy-listening but nice.

Sorry, but that version sounds more like a Christmas carol than a national anthem :tongue: