My Own Native Land

DESCRIPTION: "I've roved over mountain, I've crossed over flood, I've traversed the wave-rolling sand." Although the grass is as green and the moon is as bright, they are not the singer's native land. The singer praises Columbia, the land of freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (Dime-Song-Book)
KEYWORDS: home patriotic travel nonballad
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Beautiful-Bells-Songster, p. 11, "My Own Native Land" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1530, p. 104, "My Own Native Land" (4 references)
Dime-Song-Book #1/72, p. 37 and #1/64 p. 37, "My Own Native Land" (1 text)
Roud #37996
NOTES [27 words]: Yes, this song calls the United States "the birth place of Freedom" at a time when keeping slaves was still the habit of roughly half the states in the Union. - RBW
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File: BeBS011

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