====== #279 - Red, White and Blue ======
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/*-20note-*//*-patriotic-*/
  *Composer:
    *++Thomas A. Beckett|{{search>"Thomas A. Beckett" @cobs}}++, 1843((Some credit David T. Shaw as composer, but it is likely that Shaw initially commissioned Beckett to write the music to his lyrics, and a dispute arose when Beckett changed the lyrics. Interestingly, the lyrics were supposedly plagerized from Stephen Joseph Meany's poem //Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean//, written in 1842. See: [[http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000004/default.html]]))
  *Title variations:
    *Red, White and Blue or Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean
  *Also known as:
    *Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean
  *[[/data/media/midi/279.mid|MIDI]] | ++show|\\ {{http://www.rollerorgans.com/mid2roll.php?cob=279&.gif?}}++
  *[[:incipit]]: 55111254315665432172234525432176245
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 512543156543217234525432176245
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
O Columbia! the gem of the ocean,\\
The home of the brave and the free,\\
The shrine of each patriot's devotion,\\
A world offers homage to thee;\\
Thy mandates make heroes assemble,\\
When Liberty's form stands in view;\\
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,\\
When borne by the red, white, and blue,\\
When borne by the red, white, and blue,\\
When borne by the red, white, and blue,\\
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,\\
When borne by the red, white and blue.\\
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When war wing'd its wide desolation,\\
And threaten'd the land to deform,'\\
The ark then of freedom's foundation,\\
Columbia rode safe thro' the storm;\\
With her garlands of vict'ry around her,\\
When so proudly she bore her brave crew;\\
With her flag proudly floating before her,\\
The boast of the red, white and blue,\\
The boast of the red, white and blue,\\
The boast of the red, white, and blue,\\
With her flag proudly floating before her,\\
The boast of the red, white and blue.\\
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The Union, the Union forever,\\
Our glorious nation's sweet hymn,\\
May the wreaths it has won never wither,\\
Nor the stars of its glory grow dim,\\
May the service united ne'er sever,\\
But they to their colors prove true?\\
The Army and Navy forever,\\
Three cheers for the red, white, and blue,\\
Three cheers for the red, white, and blue,\\
Three cheers for the red, white, and blue,\\
The Army and Navy for ever,\\
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.\\
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    *++David T. Shaw|{{search>"David T. Shaw" @cobs}}++, 1843
  *See also:
    *[[..:2140:]]
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//Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean// was occasionally used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States until 1931.