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From "Home Songs", Milwaukee, published by Geo. Brumder, 1883.
Our banner bright it flies aloft; its bunting is unfurled,
We give to all a welcome—each nation in the world.
It's stood for more than a century o'er mountain, plain, and sea.
Come welcome all, come when we call to the dear land of the free.
Chorus:
Come to our banner, thus welcome you shall be;
Come from every nation, over land and sea.
We will grasp you by the hand, forgotten be the past.
We'll welcome you as brothers true, in friendship sure to last.
Let England send her hardy sons; to them we'll give the hand.
We can't forget that Washington sprung from the mother land.
Brave France, her sons we'll welcome, they gave us Lafayette;
And Ireland, sweet, her sons we'll greet; Patrick Henry we'll ne'er forget.
Come to our, etc.
Let Russia send her fur-clad sons from each ice-covered plain;
Remember that Columbus he came from sunny Spain;
Each bold Swiss leave his mountain, each rocky vale and fell;
We'll welcome great, as brothers meet the sons of William Tell.
Come to our, etc.
From Greenland's icy mountains bleak, Germany's sunny Rhine,
The tropic lands of bright Brazil, where fierce the sun doth shine;
From the dear land of Kossuth, and Denmark, in the north--
China, India, and Japan—let her manly sons come forth.
Come to our, etc.
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