Meanings
- poeticThe United States of America.
Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee / Greenest state in the land of the free
1954, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, Grant Sherman Henry, Thomas W. Blackburn (lyrics), George Bruns (music), performed by The Wellingtons3 more examples
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, / O'er the land of the Free, and the home of the brave?
1814, Francis Scott Key, The Defence of Fort McHenry[…] nowhere but in America could a liberty, so easily acquired, be so easily maintained. Since that time, Heaven has smiled incessantly on the land of the free.
1839 April, “Italian Historians”, in The North American Review, volume 48, number 103, page 330How can we still succeed taking what we don't need? / Telling lies, alibis, selling all the hate that we breed / Supersize our tragedies / Bought in the land of the free
2004, “We're All To Blame”, in Chuck, performed by Sum 41, Island Records
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