For those of you who are old enough to remember our nation's 200th birthday. This poem was written for and read at the offical Bicentennial Cermony in Washington D.C. in 1976. A copy of this poem is on display at the Smithsonian.

I Am the Great United States

I am the great United States
I am a big and properous land
My northern border is Canada
And my, southern is the Rio Grande

I spawl between two oceans great
The Atlantic and Pacific
I'm a land of great potential
And my resources are terrific

Now I was born July the fourth
Some two hundred years ago
The year was 1776
As all the world must know

I have the blood-lines of the world
A-coursing through my veins
English, Irish, Dutch, and Welsh
And many other strains

Because I offer liberty
To the weary and oppressed
And reached out with open arms
And drew them to my breast

I'm Nathen Hale and Paul Revere
I am a Light-Horse Harry Lee
I am Washington and General Meade
I'm the land of the brave and free

At Lexington I fired the shot
That was heard around the wrold
I fought for my independence
And the American flag unfurled

I remember the hell at Pearl Harbor
I remember each great World War
I remember my dead in Flanders Field
And the rock of Corregidor

I remember the hills of Korea
And the jungles of Vi-et-nam
And the sacrifice that was made there
By the boys of old Uncle Sam

I'm two hundred million living souls
Thanks to the powers to be
And the ghosts of many millions more
Who fought and died for me

I am Vermont's Green Mountain Boys
I'm Crocket and Daniel Boone
I'm John Glenn and the astronauts
Who made the long trip to the moon

I'm Patrick Henry and Jefferson
I'm John Paul Jones of the sea
I am Grant and Sherman and Jackson
Abe Lincoln and Robert E. Lee

I remember the Maine at Havana
How she sank to the sands below
I remember those brave defenders
Who died at the Alamo

I am the mountains and forests and rivers
I am the fields of golden grain
I'm farms, yes millions of farms
I'm a land of brawn and brain

Oh, yes, I'm big, I'm very big
Three million square miles of land
Humming and throbbing with industry
And that's what makes me grand

I am coal, I am oil, I'm the pipe line
To Alaska's ice-ribbed shore
U.S. stands for United States
My friends call me "Old Uncle Sam"

Now, I was conceived in liberty
And that's how I'd like to remain
The U.S.A forever
With neither a ball or a chain