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The song is made notable by the fact that it honors both Americans by birth and choice. The first chorus reads: This is my country Land of my birth This is my country Grandest on Earth. While the second chorus (sung on a repeat, as the introduction is usually not repeated) instead reads: This is my country Land of my choice This is my country
The patriotic song "Yɛn Ara Asaase Ni" was written by Ephraim Amu and sung In the Ewe language.It was later translated into Twi and then English. [1] The title version translates into English as "This Is Our Own Native Land"; it evokes a message of nationalism, and each generation doing their best to build on the works of the previous generation.
Two of his songs, "Ain't I Right" and "My Own Native Land" written in the 1960s later became popular songs during the conservative resurgence in the 1980s. [28] The lyrics of "Ain't I Right" describe anti-war protesters as fifth columnists and communists. [ 29 ]
My Own Land (in Finnish: Oma maa; occasionally translated to English as Our Native Land), Op. 92, is a single-movement, patriotic cantata for mixed choir and orchestra written in 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
The original lyrics [8] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
The title of the concert overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1867) by Hamish MacCunn is also taken from Canto 6 (stanza 2). Lord Peter Wimsey refers to the goblin page in Canto 6 ('The elvish page fell to the ground, And, shuddering, mutter’d, “Found! found! found!”') in Chapter III of Dorothy L.Sayers's Clouds of Witness (1926).
Official state children's song: "Oklahoma, My Native Land" Martha Kemm Barrett: 1996 [62] Official state gospel song: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Wallis Willis: 2011 [63]
Philippines, My Philippines. Text by Prescott Ford Jernegan I love my own, my native land, Philippines, my Philippines, To thee I give my heart and hand, Philippines, my Philippines. The trees that crown thy mountains grand, The seas that beat upon thy strand, Awake my heart to thy command, Philippines, my Philippines.