Song · A 1776 town · 1768
Pass it on
The Liberty Song
90Living historically.
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. A chorus a crowd could shout.
The review
Dickinson wrote it in 1768, to Heart of Oak, a navy song. The colonies were already taking British tunes and putting their own words in. The chorus is the part that lasted: in freedom we're born, and in freedom we'll live.
A boy could shout it without understanding the tax. The score still counts the sentence he was shouting. Uniting is a real political idea, and the song does not water it down.
Journal
Keep The Liberty Song in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 90. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
Our purses are ready. The song asks for money and nerve, not a mood.
- 9Household
Friends, steady. A company, not a hearth.
- 9Piety
Freedom is the god of the lyric. A church is not.
- 9Courage
Sung outside a tavern and at a liberty pole, where a name could be noted.
- 9Republic
The line everybody kept is the civic one: you stand by standing together.
- 9Temperance
A roar, then it ends. The appetite is for the chorus, not for blood.
- 9Truth
It says what it wants. It does not hide the tune it stole.
- 9Stewardship
Easy enough for a thirteen-year-old to belt, and worth remembering the next day.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Liberty Song · 90IMDb
