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Our Colors So True (1908) chgjj115.mid lyrics by Lizzie De Armond, music by Charles H. GabrielThree colors has the nation's flag our hearts delight to see, The Red, and White, and starry Blue, our pledge of liberty.O Red, White, and Blue, our colors so true, An emblem fair of heav'nly things, to help us on our way; O Red, White, and Blue, the old and the new, Our banner of gladness, we hail it today!Red speaks to us of Jesus' blood for all the whole world shed, That we might rise to life and light, through Him who once was...

We'll Be Waiting When You Come Back Home (1918) words by Chas. H. Gabriel, music by Homer A. Rodeheaver MIDI sequence by John McDonnell: chgos010.mid (clarinet sound indicates the voice part)free online sheet music of this composition You have gone to fight our battles in the trenches "over there". You have left your home and country for the war-torn world "somewhere". Though we may not stand beside you, as the days of trial come, Yet as mothers, sweethearts, brothers, we'll be waiting when you come back home.We'll be waiting when you come back home, with a welcome you will understand....

Arthur Pryor, born in 1870 in St. Joseph, Missouri, became a virtuoso trombonist, a trombone soloist in Sousa's Band, Sousa's assistant conductor, and beginning in 1903, the conductor of Pryor's Band. In 1917, when America entered World War I, Pryor composed a "patriotic march song" titled "We'll Be There, Uncle Sammy". Here are the lyrics by William Devereux with a MIDI sequence of the music by Arthur Pryor.We'll Be There, Uncle Sammy

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President Obama, by executive order, is intentionally importing Hamas terrorists into America.

When Piper Palin spat on her hand to wipe down the hair of her brother Trig Palin, it was a touching scene for millions of viewers. I have since discovered some connections between that scene and the story of the blind man in the Gospel of John, chapter 9. "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Trig's parents knew beforehand that he would be born with Down syndrome. Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God should be manifest in him." "He spat on the...

The Messiah of Nations (1914) jpstmon.midIn the need that bows us thus, America! Shape a mighty song for us, America! Song to whelm a hundred years' Roar of wars and rain of tears 'Neath a world's triumphant cheers, America! America! Lift the trumpet to thy mouth, America! East and West and North and South, America! Call us round the dazzling shrine Of the starry old ensign, Holier yet through blood of thine, America! America! High o'er looking sea and land, America! Trustfully with outheld hand, America! Thou dost welcome all in quest Of thy freedom, peace and rest, Ev'ry...

Should the Stars In Your Service Flag Turn To Gold (1918) lyrics by Dora F. Hendricks music by Charles H. Gabriel MIDI sequence os002.mid by John McDonnellShould the stars in your service flag turn to gold, If from somewhere in France comes the message you fear, Should the anguish of death on your heart be rolled, Creep close to God and you will hear His great heart throbbing, as soft and low He whispers: "Child, I know, I know! "Your very best for the world you've done: "I, also, gave my beloved Son, "I, also, gave my beloved Son." Like...

"There's One Last Chance to Stop McCain" music by John Philip Sousa (1884) lyrics and MIDI by John McDonnell (2008)There's one last chance to stop McCain Before nominating's done. In primaries that still remain Votes rejecting him can stun. Let's get out! Vote against McCain! Let's get out! Vote against McCain! Stop this lib'ral RINO shoo-in! Our party he would ruin! Let's get out! Vote against McCain! The two repeats are provided for increasing loudness in singing. Writing this song was a way of venting my anger against the amnesty-loving leadership of the Republican Party. It should be noted that...

We Are Coming (1918) MIDI by John McDonnell From the mountains wreathed and hoary, From the river and the plain, From the seaboard and the valley, We are marching forth again.We are marching, marching, marching, in answer to the call Of justice for the nations and liberty for all. We are marching, marching, marching, in answer to the call Of justice for the nations and liberty for all. We are coming, we are coming, As the pilgrims came of yore, We will rally round Old Glory As our fathers did before.We are marching, marching, marching, in answer to the...

Those who wrestle against forces opposed to freedom occasionally need refuge from the daily flak of lies fired off by the "drive-by media". One soul-reviving refuge can be found in music of various kinds. The American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) produced many musical works that I find refreshing, especially his Second Concerto for piano and orchestra and his Second Suite for orchestra. I also enjoy playing, on the piano, pieces from his Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces, Fireside Tales, New England Idyls, and other works. Because I like MacDowell's music, I have produced, using NoteWorthy Composer software, the largest MIDI collection...

I wish that our fighting men and women in Afganistan and Iraq would be praised through new musical compositions that would be gratefully performed for these noble heroes in the cause of liberty. In 1919, shortly after the Great War of 1914-1918, a former 18th Regiment band leader, Mario S. Rocereto, composed a march for band that was "dedicated to the American land, sea, and aerial forces". Here is a 1923 piano transcription of "Our Fighting Men". http://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/rocereto.mid (If the link doesn't work, go to www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click on "Our Fighting Men".) Although...

from "The Hermitage" (1866) by Edward Rowland Sill: However small the present creature man, --- Ridiculous imitation of the gods, Weak plagiarism on some completer world, --- Yet we can boast of that strong race to be. The savages broke the attraction which binds fast The fibres of the oak, and we to-day By cunning chemistry can force apart The elements of the air. That coming race Shall loose the bands by which the earth attracts; A drop of occult tincture, a spring touched Shall outwit gravitation; men shall float, Or lift the hills and set them down where...

Did genetic engineering bring on the destroying flood in Noah's time? "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. For God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." The gathering of animals into the ark may have been to preserve the kinds that God had originally made rather than all kinds then existing. Noah was assigned to keep alive pairs from "every living thing...

The continuing assault on the Boy Scouts of America by those wanting to drag America down into pits of sexual perversion is ugly. The positive contribution of the BSA to the quality of American life was felt by two of America's greatest composers of marches for band. In 1916, John Philip Sousa produced a magnificent march entitled "Boy Scouts of America", which is available on the internet as a playable midi file. http://dws.org/sousa/works.htm In the 1930s, Edwin Franko Goldman produced a march as good as Sousa's entitled "Boy Scouts of America". Although a midi file is not yet available, I ...

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 oration "The Method of Nature" is a statement that in our age of genetic engineering must seem strange. "In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry, no mechanics, can account for the facts, but a mysterious principle of life must be assumed, which not only inhabits the organ, but makes the organ." Our present media report on genetic research in an oversimplified way suggesting that every aspect of any life form is determined by the chemistry and mechanics of its genetic makeup, which can be artificially altered at any point to ...

Way back in 1892 Josiah Royce's book "The Spirit of Modern Philosophy" claimed: "... the fashion of this world of time and space is such as to give us no united and intelligible definition of the world-process in its wholeness. Only the self-completed is intelligible; and our physical world in endless time and in infinite space, being no world of self-completed, that is, of 'cyclical' processes, is a mere aspect of the true world, and is also an aspect that must be but fragmentary." [page 420] Compare that with this statement in the 1999 book "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden ...

[quoted from "The Sources of Religious Insight" (1912) by Josiah Royce, pages 104-105] "Religious faith does, indeed, involve a seemingly paradoxical attempt to transcend the admitted ignorance of the needy human being, to admit that of himself this being knows almost nothing about the way of salvation, and nevertheless to insist that he is able to recognize his Deliverer's voice as the voice of a real master of life when he hears that voice, or---apart from metaphor---that he is able to be sure what revelation of a divine life, not his own, is the true one when he happens to ...

I am one who believes that there are absolute truths. What example can I give of a truth that is absolutely unchanging? Well, I like the example given by the idealistic philosopher Josiah Royce. It is that once a deed is done we cannot go back and undo that deed. If the deed was not good, we may do other deeds attempting to stop the effects resulting from a bad deed. But we cannot recall the first deed and prevent it from ever having been done. This absolute truth can be briefly stated. DEEDS ONCE DONE ARE IRREVOCABLE. Since some ...

"... whatever your opinions, your expression of them is an appeal to some wider insight that you regard as real, and that you view as a live insight which comprehends your ideas, and which sees how they are related to genuine experience. This, I affirm, is the universal form which all opinion takes. A true opinion is true, because in fact it expresses what the wider insight confirms. A false opinion is false, because it is refuted by the light of this same wider view. Apart from such a confirmation or refutation in the light of such a larger view, ...