英语词汇god bless america的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

“God Bless America.” American composer Irving Berlin, who emigrated with his parents from Russia to the U.S. when five years old, wrote the unofficial American national anthem while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Upton in Yaphank, a Long Island, New York, farm town. Berlin wrote the song for the benefit musical revue Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which was performed entirely by soldiers, but he felt the lyrics were too solemn for the show and filed it away. In 1938, when singer Kate Smith requested a song for her popular radio program, he suggested “God Bless America,” and it became an American classic before World War II to the present-day war on terror- ism. Berlin, who died in 1989 at 101, donated all the song’s millions in royalties to the Boy Scouts. The seldom sung first verse of the song goes: “While the storm clouds gather, far across the sea/Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free/Let us all be grateful for a land so fair/As we raise our voices in solemn prayer.” See america the beautiful, america; stars and stripes, star-spangled banner; columbia the gem of the ocean; battle hymn of the republic; away down south in dixie; yankee doodle dandy; over there; sousaphone.

词汇	god bless america
词源	“God Bless America.” American composer Irving Berlin, who emigrated with his parents from Russia to the U.S. when five years old, wrote the unofficial American national anthem while serving in the army during World War I at Camp Upton in Yaphank, a Long Island, New York, farm town. Berlin wrote the song for the benefit musical revue Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which was performed entirely by soldiers, but he felt the lyrics were too solemn for the show and filed it away. In 1938, when singer Kate Smith requested a song for her popular radio program, he suggested “God Bless America,” and it became an American classic before World War II to the present-day war on terror- ism. Berlin, who died in 1989 at 101, donated all the song’s millions in royalties to the Boy Scouts. The seldom sung first verse of the song goes: “While the storm clouds gather, far across the sea/Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free/Let us all be grateful for a land so fair/As we raise our voices in solemn prayer.” See america the beautiful, america; stars and stripes, star-spangled banner; columbia the gem of the ocean; battle hymn of the republic; away down south in dixie; yankee doodle dandy; over there; sousaphone.
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