Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Sang in Many Countries. [ARTICLE]

Sang in Many Countries.

The air of “God Save th® King” and “Heil Dir im Sieger Kranz” also figured in the national or patriotic songs of many other countries. In the United States it was adopted by Samuel S. Smith for his famous song, beginning “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” This was first sung in Boston in 1832, and has often been called the national anthem of, the republic, although that honor is now more generally accorded to “The Star Spangled Banner.” In Bavaria the same air is used to “Heil I unserm Konig, Heil!” In Switzerland it becomes “Rufst du, mein Vaterland.” It is sung with other words in Denmark, Norway and a number of the German states, including, besides Prussia and Bavaria, the kingdoms of Saxony and Wuerttemberg, and in Brunswick, Weimar and Hanover.