Was the unofficial national anthem of the United States vacate from a twain dissimilar sources?Consider the following :
In 1906 a triplet of Irish songster scored a minor vaudeville slay with the birdcall " When Mose with his Nose Leads the Band . “ An eighteen - year - one-time named Israel Baline probably heard the Sung dynasty because he worked as a singing server and call for to know all the collision , big and small . One never cognise what a table might request .
As Jody Rosen says in the ocean liner observe from a late re - release of " When Mose with his Nose lead the Band" ( Reboot Stereophonic ): " A decade later , Baline had a young name , Irving Berlin , an exalted place among democratic songwriter , and a substance abuse of interpolate bite of half - remembered song into his own numbers,“ which is exactly what he did when he wrote " God Bless America" in 1918 . As you ’ll hear in the conform to two examples , the porta strains of the refrain from each song are selfsame , note for billet .
" God Bless America" [ excerpt ]
" When Mose with his Nose Leads the Band" [ excerpt ]
As for Berlin ’s lyric poem , take a skinny expression at this little excerption from another birdcall ( a very unnoticeable song ) called " God Bless America" written by Robert Montgomery Bird published over 80 geezerhood before Berlin ’s ( 1834 , to be exact ):
God sign America!/God bless the land , the land beloved
[ Compare that to Berlin’s : God bless America!/Land that I sleep together " ¦ ]
So it ’s hard to nitpick . But still , one ca n’t help but marvel if part of the decision to do so was maybe / perchance / perhaps ( just perhaps ) due to the fact that he maybe / maybe / perhaps felt an eensey weensey twinge of guilt ? Eh ? Eh ? A soupçon , maybe ?
What do you all conceive ?
