Hoping it will pump up my readers and bum out anyone who reads the New York Times, I offer this fife and drum rendition of Yankee Doodle.
The British made up this song to mock the upstart colonials who dared defy King George. They little dreamed the colonials would embrace the song on the way to kicking their butts back to England.
If you’ve got any liberals around, turn up the volume.
I’m old enough to remember learning this in school–The American Hymn, composed in 1866 by Matthias Keller.
I couldn’t find a video featuring both music and lyrics. Why do you suppose that might be? But the opening words are, “Speed our republic, O Father on high.”
Personally, although I love my country, I love it more for what it ought to be, than for what it is. What it is becoming, I detest.
But today is Independence Day, a day commemorating the brightest of hopes founded on trust in God Almighty.
Let us declare our independence, and win it, from the Godless socialist moral imbeciles who lord it over us today.
P.S.: Here are the complete lyrics