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[[File:John Dickinson.jpg|right|100px|thumb|John Dickinson]]
[[File:John Dickinson.jpg|right|200px|thumb|John Dickinson]]
'''The Liberty Song''', first published in 1768, is known as the first piece of music from the time of the [[American Revolution]]. It was composed by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]], though sometimes it is misattributed to Mercy Otis Warren.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zwcQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA881 Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal, and Instrumental]</ref>
'''The Liberty Song''', first published in 1768, is known as the first piece of music from the time of the [[American Revolution]]. It was composed by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wrYxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA452 Cyclopædia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day]</ref> though sometimes it is misattributed to Mercy Otis Warren.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zwcQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA881 Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal, and Instrumental]</ref>
The song holds the tune of ''Hearts of Oak''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rpknAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61 American Poetry]</ref>
==Lyrics==
:Come, join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
:And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty's call;
:No tyrannous acts shall suppress your just claim,
:Or stain with dishonor America's name.
:('''Chorus''':)
:In Freedom we're born and in Freedom we'll live.
:Our purses are ready-
:Steady, friends, steady;
:Not as slaves, but as Freemen our money we'll give.
:Our worthy forefathers (let's give them a cheer)
:To climates unknown did courageously steer;
:Through oceans to deserts for Freedom they came,
:And dying, bequeath'd us their freedom and fame.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:Their generous bosoms all dangers despised,
:So highly, so wisely, their Birthrights they prized;
:We'll keep what they gave, we will piously keep,
:Nor frustrate their toils on the land and the deep.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:The tree their own hands had to Liberty rear'd,
:They lived to behold growing strong and revered;
:With transport they cried, "Now our wishes we gain,
:For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain."
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:How sweet are the labours that freemen endure,
:That they shall enjoy all the profit, secure-
:No more such sweet labours Americans know
:If Britons shall reap what Americans sow.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:Swarms of placemen and pensioners soon will appear,
:Like locusts deforming the charms of the year;
:Suns vainly will rise, showers vainly descend,
:If we are to drudge for what others shall spend.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
:By ''uniting'' we stand, by ''dividing'' we fall;
:In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed
:For heaven approves of each generous deed.
:All ages shall speak with amaze and applause
:Of the courage we'll show in support of our Laws;
:To die we can bear, but to serve we disdain,
:For shame is to Freedom more dreadful than pain.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
:This bumper I crown for our Sovereign's health,
:And this for Britannia's glory and wealth;
:That wealth and that glory immortal may be,
:If She is but Just, and if we are but Free.
:(<small>Chorus</small>)
==References==
==References==