<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics to "My Country' Tis of Thee" in 1831, while he was a student at the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts . His friend Lowell Mason had asked him to translate the lyrics in some German school songbooks or to write new lyrics . A melody in Muzio Clementi's Symphony No. 3 (also called' The Great National' and contains the melody of' God Save the Queen' as a tribute to Clementi's adopted country) caught his attention . Rather than translating the lyrics from German, Smith wrote his own American patriotic hymn to the melody, completing the lyrics in thirty minutes . </P> <P> Smith gave Mason the lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831, at a children's Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston . First publication of "America" was in 1832 . </P> <Dl> <Dt> </Dt> <Dd> My country,' tis of thee, </Dd> <Dd> Sweet land of liberty, </Dd> <Dd> Of thee I sing; </Dd> <Dd> Land where my fathers died, </Dd> <Dd> Land of the pilgrims' pride, </Dd> <Dd> From ev'ry mountainside </Dd> <Dd> Let freedom ring! </Dd> <Dt> </Dt> <Dd> My native country, thee, </Dd> <Dd> Land of the noble free, </Dd> <Dd> Thy name I love; </Dd> <Dd> I love thy rocks and rills, </Dd> <Dd> Thy woods and templed hills; </Dd> <Dd> My heart with rapture thrills, </Dd> <Dd> Like that above . </Dd> </Dl>

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