Sunday Songbook ~ An Obamanation

My Country 'Tis of Thee

My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!

My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

No more shall tyrants here
With haughty steps appear,
And soldier bands;
No more shall tyrants tread
Above the patriot dead—
No more our blood be shed
By alien hands.

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.

Our fathers’ God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.

"I in­stant­ly felt the im­pulse to write a pa­tri­o­tic hymn of my own ... Pick­ing up a scrap of waste pa­per which lay near me, I wrote at once, prob­ab­ly with­in half an hour, the hymn ‘Amer­i­ca’ as it is now known ev­ery­where. The whole hymn stands to­day as it stood on the bit of waste paper."

Samuel F. Smith, 1831

In light of the upcoming election I decided to go with a more patriotic hymn. I was planning on spewing out a opinion post of my own about what we are getting ourselves into. Although I am not overwhelmingly politically minded I do have opinions. I wanted to share what little I knew out of desperation. There are some scary things out things out there that in light of our post 9-11 country should raise MAJOR red flags. I thought if I could bring some facts to light and change just one mind then it may make a difference.

As I cruised around some of the blogs I follow I found some of these awesome women were taking the words right out of my mouth. I will defer you to them because they have done a much better job saying what I wanted to say. God Bless you and see you at the polls.

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking. I wish I could just cut and paste it over here but the credit goes to beckyjomama not only for taking the words right out of my mouth but for being brave enough to write them in the first place.

A man who has bled for this country or a man who wants this country to bleed.

Yes we know war is a terrible thing but what do the people fighting it think?

And to lighten the load, there is power in the "O".

Are you ready for an Obamanation? I am not.