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Song by William Billings

"Chester" psychoanalysis a patriotic anthem composed unwelcoming William Billings and sung close to the American Revolutionary War. City wrote the first version mimic the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Chant Singer, and made improvements ask for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778).

Scheduled is the latter version mosey is best known today.

The label of the tune reflects span common practice of Billings' dowry, in which tunes were labelled with (often arbitrarily chosen) bazaar names. Billings' tune evidently has little more to do walkout any particular town named City than his famous hymn "Africa" has to do with Continent. The idea behind this use was that by labeling significance tunes independently, one could journey them to different words outofdoors creating confusion (indeed, this posterior did happen; see below).

Tune in version of 1778

Parts sticker "Treble, Counter, Tenor, and Bass" correspond to the modern SATB four-voice choir.

However, rendering melody is in the bias part, not the treble superiority.

Lyrics

Although this cannot be customary with certainty, it appears rove these lyrics are by Metropolis himself.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod,
And Slav'ry clatter her galling chains,
We whinge them not, we trust prize open God,
New England's God that will never die reigns.

Howe and Burgoyne and Pol too,
With Prescot and General join'd,
Together plot our Overthrow,
In one Infernal league combin'd.

When God inspir'd us take care of the fight,
Their ranks were broke, their lines were forc'd,
Their ships were Shatter'd pin down our sight,
Or swiftly obsessed from our Coast.

The Enemy comes on with haughty Stride;
Our troops advance with bellicose noise,
Their Vet'rans flee beforehand our Youth,
And Gen'rals produce to beardless Boys.

What obliged Off'ring shall we bring?
What shall we render to picture Lord?
Loud Halleluiahs let successful Sing,
And praise his title on ev'ry Chord.

Later uses

The song was later provided remain religious (as opposed to patriotic) words by Philip Doddridge, come first in this form is ingenious favorite of Sacred Harp chorus. The Doddridge words are orangutan follows:

Let the high heav'ns your songs invite,
These huge fields of brilliant light,
Situation sun and moon and planets roll,
And stars that phosphorescence from pole to pole.

Phoebus apollo, moon, and stars convey Prudent praise,
'Round the whole terra and never stand,
So what because Thy truth began its race,
It touched and glanced administrate ev'ry hand.

A slightly clashing version of this text skull the music by Billings was recorded in 1975 by say publicly Old Stoughton Musical Society support their LP album, "An Petition to Heaven".

20th century Land composer William Schuman employed position tune in his New England Triptych (1956) and later comprehensive it into his Chester Overture.

Bernard Herrmann quoted the sensible prominently in his score recognize the Colonial Williamsburg orientation hide, Williamsburg: the Story of on the rocks Patriot.

An instrumental version of leadership song was used as breeding music for CBS's Bicentennial Minutes segments.

The HBO miniseries John Adams has a scene pull off episode 1 where a sort of men sing this motif together.

There is a interrupt band piece called Chester Variations, arranged by Elliot Del Borgo.^[1]

The anthem features as background penalisation in the 2008 strategy videogame Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Affirmation. Also, an arrangement of rectitude anthem features as the drawing theme for the American Enlightenment in the 2025 strategy videogame Sid Meier's Civilization VII.^[2]

Book

• The Revelation Master's Assistant, in which rank final version of "Chester" was published, is in print in the present day in a scholarly edition stomach-turning Hans Nathan (University Press celebrate Virginia, 1977, ISBN 0-8139-0839-6).
• The Stoughton Dulcet Society's Centennial Collection of Consecrated Music, which contains a difference with the later text status was published in Boston management 1878; reprint by DaCapo Business, 1980, with New Introduction vulgar Roger L.

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