My Country, 'Tis of Thee
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"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith. The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the Uni
Aretha Franklin singing "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" at the first inauguration of Barack Obama (January 20, 2009)
God Save the King
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"God Save the King" is the national anthem of the United Kingdom. It is one of the two national anthems of New Zealand and the royal anthem of the Isle of Man, Australia, Canada and some other Commonw
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
…Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. The melody is adapted from the de facto national anthem of the United Kingdom, "God Save the King". Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics to "America" in 1831 while a student at the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts. The use of…
The phrase "God Save the King" in use as a rallying cry to the support of the monarch and the UK's forces during the First World War
Royal Marines and bluejackets aboard HMS Royal Oak being served their rum rations from a rum tub inscribed with "God save the King" (1916)
Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall (built 1767), bearing the painted slogan, "God Save the King"
The fourth Hickson verse (with "o'er" misspelled as "o're") on a British-American friendship plaque in St Nicholas' Church, Charlwood, Surrey