War Songs for Community Meetings

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Edwin Du Bois Shurter
University of Texas, 1918 - National songs - 14 pages
 

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Page 2 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Page 6 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 8 - The army and navy forever, Three cheers for the red, white and blue, Three cheers for the red, white and blue...
Page 4 - In God is our trust"; And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land...
Page 4 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows...
Page 13 - So pack up your troubles In your old kit bag And smile, smile, smile.
Page 4 - O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets...
Page 85 - Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away : Change and decay in all around I see ; O thou, who changest not, abide with me.
Page 5 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! 4 Our fathers...
Page 19 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.

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