This is an incomplete list. It may never be fully completed or, depending on its nature, it may be that it can never be complete. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
A patriotic song is a song that demonstrates love for one's country. It may have words, or it may be simply instrumental; it may be an official national anthem or may not be. It is often sung on holidays. Common themes include love of country or other patriotic and nationalist sentiments. Some patriotic songs are militaristic, jingoistic, or have themes that glorify self-sacrifice; others focus on a land's beauty, history, or ideals.
For historical reasons of the domination by England of the culture of the United Kingdom, those songs have been adopted as patriotic songs, often to the distaste of the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish.
God Save the Queen – the country's de facto, but not de jure, national anthem
Winnie The Pooh being very patriotic with his Uncle Sam hat on and beating on drums that are red, white and blue that change colors are moving this way and that way across the computer screen.
Patriotic colored stars bumping into each other all over the computer screen for a great screensaver for the holiday of the 4th Of July.
A patriotic collage decorates your desktop with classic images of patriotism combined with newfound pride in the American Flag after the tragic events of September 2001.
While all patriotic and national music is to a greater or less extent popular music, it may be classed apart in that its growth mainly is due to the circumstance of war and is the specific outcome of such conditions.
America's war songs and sea songs have played their part as incentives to patriotism, to fill the ranks through enlistment, to valor in the field and on the sea, and have served to inspire and cheer the fighting forces of our country.
This song, dedicated to the Cambridge (Mass., I assume since the publisher was in Boston) Lodge, no. 839 of the B.P.O. Elks, is a wonderful example of the kinds of patrioticsongs that were written during the first decade of the twentieth century.
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