music 1a - introduction to music
dan mitchell | music department | creative arts division | de anza college |

The Things Our Fathers Loved

Charles Ives

1917 (subtitled "and the greatest of these was liberty.")

I think there must be a place in the soul
all made of tunes, of tunes of long ago;
I hear the organ on the Main Street corner,
Aunt Sarah humming Gospels; Summer evenings,
The village cornet band, playing in the square.
The town's Red, White and Blue,
all Red, White and Blue; Now! Hear the words
But they sing in my soul of the things our Fathers loved.