Free America -

Beginners syncopation and intervals brings the focus on history
and vocabulary of the American Revolution.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – music: Traditional, words: Joseph Warren
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABa
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta (ti) ti |
| ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ta (ti) ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: beginners: m3: Re/Fa, Re\Ti, Fa\Re; P4: So/Do\So; P5: So\Do, Do/So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, expression: with spirit, dynamic: forte/loud, syncopation
Key Words: USA history, American Revolution, American Colonial Song, patriotic song, American Revolutionary Song; world geography: Europe: France; Spain; Athens, Greece; Rome, Italy; science, seat, mistress, glories, scarce, tomb, rights, stoop, lawless, sway, oppose, North America, freedom, hither, desert, smiled, paradise, pleasure, harvest, snatch, torn, tyrants, beneath, western, dominion, liberty, freemen, God bless, maiden climate, through, cast, domain, hosts, heroes cluster, scorn, blast, venal, sycophants, betray, assert, yourselves, brave, proud disdain, wretch, ensnare, vain, array, reigns, masters, laws, subject, isles, ocean, spread, tremble, obey, prince; contractions: we’re (we are) , we’d (we would); abbreviation: pow’r (power), o’er (over); possessive: earth’s , freedom’s

**“Free America”**

	1.	That seat of science, Athens, And earth’s proud mistress, Rome, Where now are all their glories? We scarce can find a tomb. Then guard your rights, Americans, Nor stoop to lawless sway, Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose For North America.
	2.	We led fair Freedom hither, And lo! the desert smiled, A paradise of pleasure Was opened to the world; Your harvest, bold Americans, No pow’r shall snatch away, Huzza, huzza, huzza For free America.
	3.	Torn from a world of tyrants Beneath this western sky We formed a new dominion, A land of liberty; The world shall own we’re freemen here, And such will ever be, Huzza, huzza, huzza, For love and liberty.
	4.	God bless this maiden climate, And through her vast domain May hosts of heroes cluster That scorn to wear a chain. And blast the venal sycophants Who dare our rights betray; Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves For brave America.
	5.	Lift up your hearts, my heroes, And swear with proud disdain, The wretch that would ensnare you Shall spread his net in vain; Should Europe empty all her force, We’d meet them in array, And shout huzza, huzza, huzza For brave America.
	6.	The land where freedom reigns shall still Be masters of the main, In giving laws and freedom To subject France and Spain; And all the isles o’er ocean spread Shall tremble and obey, The prince who rules by Freedom’s laws In North America.

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