America I love you

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America I love you
You're like a sweetheart of mine
[...]
From ocean to ocean
For you my devotion
Is touching each boundary line
[...]
Just like a little baby
Climbing its mother's knee
[...]
America I love you
[...]
And there's a hundred million others like me

“America I Love You" was a popular song "well received as an expression of American patriotism at the beginning of the European First World War"; it was written in 1915 by Edgar Leslie (lyrics) and Archie Gottler (music; Ewen 231 as cited in Trombold 314).

Source(s)

Trombold, John. "Popular Songs as Revolutionary Culture in John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." and Other Early Works." Journal of Modern Literature 19.2 (Autumn, 1995): 289-316.

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