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"This is My Country" is an American patriotic folk song composed in 1940. The lyrics are by Don Raye and the music is by Al Jacobs.

Another song of the same name was performed by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions on the 1968 album of the same name.[1]

The folk song begins slowly, opening with:

What difference if I hail from North or South
Or from the East or West?
My heart is filled with love
For all of these.
I only know I swell with pride
And deep within my breast
I thrill to see Old Glory
Paint the breeze.

It then swings into a march tempo for the verse.

The song is made notable by the fact that it honors both native-born Americans and immigrants. The first verse reads:

This is my country
Land of my birth
This is my country
Grandest on Earth

While the second verse (sung on a repeat, as the introduction is not repeated) instead reads:

This is my country
Land of my choice
This is my country
Hear my proud voice.

Both versions join together at the ending:

I pledge thee my allegiance
America the bold
For this is my country
To have and to hold

References

  1. ^ "Break". Several lines of the Mayfield/Impressions recording played as first musical break on Democracy Now! interview with Walter Mosley, February 27, 2012. One line: "Some people don't think we have the right to say 'This is my country'."


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