To Be American

About This Piece

Music: Brett Stewart

Text: Brett Stewart

• Children’s Choir, SATB & Piano
• Orchestration: 3.2.2.2 – 4.3.3.1 – timp – perc – hp – org – str

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Text:

Our fathers fought the fight that gave us liberty,

Our mothers sewed the flags that wave for you and me.

Their sons and daughters pay a price to keep us free,

A price that all must pay to save this country.

Chorus:

America, America,

A land of liberty, a land of opportunity,

America, America,

A land where freedom rings, a land where children sing

Of blessings that it brings to be American.

Those who’ve gone before us worked to make this country grand,

Built the bridges, paved the roads and farmed the land.

We the People need to give more than we take.

It takes toil and work to make a country great.

America, America,

The greatest land on earth.

America, America,

Where some come to work with nothing to lose

And others to worship how they choose.

Our Founding Fathers built a nation under God,

That we might worship Him and spread His word abroad.

The Lord has promised we shall prosper in this land,

If we will tread His ways and follow His commands.