The Bonnie Blue Flag (Ketchum , set by D. Hagen) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Come, brothers ! rally for the right ! 
  The bravest of the brave 
Sends forth her ringing battle-cry 
  Beside the Atlantic Wave ! 
She leads the way in honor's path!
  Come, brothers, near and far, 
Come rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag 
  That bears a single star ! 

We've borne the Yankee trickery, 
  The Yankee gibe and sneer, 
Till Yankee insolence and pride 
  Know neither shame nor fear ; 
But ready now with shot and steel 
  Their brazen front to mar, 
We hoist aloft the Bonnie Blue Flag 
  That bears a single star ! 

Now Georgia marches to the front, 
  And close beside her come 
Her sisters by the Mexique Sea, 
  With pealing trump and drum ; 
Till answering back from hill and glen 
  The rallying cry afar, 
A NATION hoists the Bonnie Blue Flag
  That bears a single star ! 

By every stone in Charleston Kay, 
  By each beleaguered town, 
We swear to rest not, night nor day, 
  But hunt the tyrants down ! 
Till bathed in valor's holy blood 
  The gazing world afar 
Shall greet with shouts the Bonnie Blue Hag 
  That bears the cross and star !

Authorship

Annie Chambers Ketchum

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Daron Aric Hagen (1961-)

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Date added to the website: 2009-10-16.

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