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Best Patriotic Songs for the 4th of July

Patriotic Music Trivia

The song God Bless America is considered America’s unofficial national anthem. A five-year old immigrant originally composed God Bless America while headed to America from Siberia. Irving Berlin wrote the original song version in 1918. Kate Smith’s historic broadcast was performed on November 11, 1938.

Judy Garland performed The Battle Hymn of the Republic in honor of John F. Kennedy shortly after his assassination in 1963.  The patriotic song performance is one of the classic television broadcasts of all time.

Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful in 1893 while on a lecture trip to Colorado. A group of strangers celebrated the close of the session by taking an expedition to the top of Pikes Peak. A couple of the visitors fell ill from the altitude, so their stay on the Peak was cut short. It was during the descent in prairie wagons that Bates wrote the opening words to America the Beautiful.

Woodie Guthrie wrote This Land is Your Land in 1940 as a reaction to Irving Berlin’s God Bless America. Guthrie felt Berlin’s song did not accurately represent the lop-sided distribution of land and wealth that Guthrie experienced as a child. Guthrie didn’t have any statistics to back up his annoyance with Berlin’s song, but it turns out that Guthrie was right. During the Great Depression, nearly 20% of the nation’s wealth belonged to only one percent of its population.

Enjoy these Top 10 Patriotic Songs for the 4th of July. The MP3 player includes these patriotic songs:

Star-Spangled Banner by Whitney Houston
God Bless America by Kate Smith
I’m Proud To Be An American by Lee Greenwood
America The Beautiful by John Denver
This Land Is Your Land by Arlo Guthrie
Independence Day by Martina McBride
American Trilogy by Elvis Presley
Battle Hymn of the Republic by Judy Garland
Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
If You’re Reading This Tribute to the Soldiers by Tim McGraw