Reproducible Kit. Thank A Vet. by Mike Wilson. An Important Notice About Your Rights To Duplicate. Please don t teach your singers to steal.

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1 SE-577 Reproducible Kit by Mike Wilson An Important Notice About Your Rights To Duplicate With the purchase o this product, (one teacher or director) may legally duplicate the reproducible singers pages or use ith r singers, no matter ho many singers have, even i ork in more than one school or ith more than one congregation Permission to duplicate and/or share the music, reproducible pages, or recording ith anyone else is not granted and is considered a copyright inringement Permission is granted to duplicate the accompanying recording or back-up purposes only Please don t teach r singers to steal The people ho rite and publish this music depend on its sales or their livelihood Not only is it illegal or to reely duplicate their ork ithout their permission, it is also unair and it sets a bad example or r singers We ill alays ight or r rights to better pay and orking conditions, and as one o the e publishers o children s music, e invest most o our proits in ne music and resources or We also take care to provide real value in our products In return, e ask or r support o our rights Thank P O Box Wauatosa, WI 53226

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3 Å 13 vet sus /B They gave Å 17 us the best years o their th to pro - tect the red, hite, and blue Wheth-er Å 21 land or air or on the sea, they de - end our lib - er - Ami Ami7 ty D /D D Í I 2

4 (opt) (solo, optional) i coda i coda love r coun-try, I i love my coun-try /B cher - ish ree-dom, I i cher - ish ree-dom /B ı30 love A - mer - i - (all) divisi, optional Love A - mer - i - Ami ( ) ca, ca, thank a thank a D vet vet /B 3

5 respectul march (Î=72) c 3 Å 5 I % Mike Wilson love r coun- try, thank a vet I cher - ish ree-dom, thank a Å 9 vet or the price they paid, or the to coda (ater ds) i Å 13 sac - ri - ice they made I love r coun-try, thank a vet Å 17 They gave us the best years o their th to pro - tect the red, hite, and blue Å 21 Wheth-er land or air or on the sea, they de - end our lib - er - ty Í I 2008 Plank Road Publishing, Inc International opyright Secured All Rights Reserved 4

6 i coda love r coun-try, (solo, optional) i cher - ish ree- dom, I love my coun-try I ı30 ( ) i love A - mer - i - ca, cher - ish ree - dom (all) Love A - mer - i - ca, thank a vet thank a vet 5

7 I love r country, thank a vet I cherish reedom, thank a vet or the price they paid, or the sacriice they made I love r country, thank a vet They gave us the best years o their th to protect the red, hite, and blue Whether land or air or on the sea, they deend our liberty I love r country, thank a vet I cherish reedom, thank a vet or the price they paid, or the sacriice they made part 1: I love r country, i cherish reedom, i love America, thank a vet part 2 (solos, optional): I love my country I cherish reedom all (divisi, opt): Love America, thank a vet THANK A VET, Mike Wilson 2008 Plank Road Publishing, Inc All Rights Reserved

8 Notes or is orchestrated in a sober, respectul march style Beginning ith a brass choir, instrumentation also includes snares and percussion, piano, bass, and clarinets The melody line is slo and simple, easily accessible to all age groups It breaks into an optional three parts hen it climaxes on the second to last line The last chorus also oers to small solo lines or variety As ith all Veterans Day songs, the cross curricular possibilities are obvious We ve learned o a really cool gesture going around to honor veterans It serves as an ideal choreography to accompany the ords thank a vet each time it is sung On the ord thank, place r hand over r heart On the ord vet, soop r hand out, don, and aay, as though are handing out something And at the same time, oer a small respectul nod or bo Make enough o a nod or bo to be noticed, but not so much that the listener loses the ord vet The gesture means e thank rom the bottom o our hearts Wouldn t it be aesome to have all the veterans in r audience stand at the completion o the song Then have r choir, along ith the remainder o the audience, oer them this gesture o thanks in tandem Better have tissues handy Our MUSI K-8 Magazine Index has many more Veterans Day ideas or to use ith r program You ll ind a donloadable, interactive index as ell as a searchable online one under the MUSI K-8 Magazine pull-don menu on our eb site, MusicK8com 7