God Bless Our Native Land in Tonic Solfa

God Bless Our Native Land in Tonic Solfa: the solfa line by line with the words, staff notation, all 2 verses, and a piano to sing along with.

Key: F major
Doh: F
Time: 3/4
Starts on: d (F)
Range: t, to l (E to D, a seventh)
Tune: AMERICA
Words: Siegfried August Mahlmann, Charles Timothy Brooks, John Sullivan Dwight
Music: From Harmonia Anglicana, 1742

The solfa with the words

Doh is F3/4

dGod-dbless-rour-

t,na---dtiverland!-

mFirm-mmay-fshe-

me---rverdstand-

rThrough-dstorm-t,and-

dnight;-----

sWhen-sthe-swild-

stem---fpestsmrave,-

fRu--fler-fof-

fwind--mandrwave,-

mDo-fThoum_rourd_

mcoun---ftryssave-

lByf_mThy-rgreat-

dmight.-----

The solfa line by line

The same solfa as plain text, a line of the hymn at a time, with the words of the first verse under it — easy to copy into your own notes or a WhatsApp message to the choir.

Doh is F · 3/4

| l f m - r - By Thy great| d - - - - - |might.

Staff notation

The melody on the treble staff in F major, with the first verse under the notes.

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

The words

God bless our native land!
Firm may she ever stand
Through storm and night;
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do Thou our country save
By Thy great might.

For her our prayer shall rise
To God above the skies;
On Him we wait;
Thou who art ever nigh,
Guarding with watchful eye,
To Thee aloud we cry,
God save the state!

How to sing it from the solfa

Find doh first. Play or hum F and sing d r m f s up from it, so the whole choir has the key in their ears before you start.
Pitch the first note. The tune starts on d (F).
Count the time. 3/4 means three crotchet beats in each bar. In the grid every cell is half a crotchet: a dash (–) holds the note before it, and _ is a rest.
Know the notes. The tune uses d r m f s l t. A comma after a note (s,) is the octave below; an apostrophe (d') is the octave above.

New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.

About the hymn

The words are by Siegfried August Mahlmann, first published in 1815. The English translation is by Charles Timothy Brooks and John Sullivan Dwight (1833). The tune, AMERICA, is from Harmonia Anglicana, 1742. This version of the melody and the words comes from the Open Hymnal Project.

Words (1815): Siegfried August Mahlmann (1771–1826)
Translated (1833): Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883)
Translated (1833): John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893)
Melody (1742): From Harmonia Anglicana, 1742

Melody and words from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune AMERICA (From Harmonia Anglicana, 1742); words by Siegfried August Mahlmann (1771–1826); translated by Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883) and John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893). The Open Hymnal Project publishes this hymn as public domain; NoteFusion's engine wrote the solfa from its notes. The melody has not yet been checked against a printed hymn book.

Questions about God Bless Our Native Land

What is the doh of God Bless Our Native Land?

In this version, in F major, doh is F. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.

What note does God Bless Our Native Land start on?

It starts on d (F in F major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.

Is God Bless Our Native Land in the public domain?

Yes. Siegfried August Mahlmann died in 1826, Charles Timothy Brooks died in 1883, John Sullivan Dwight died in 1893; the words were first published in 1833 and the music in 1742. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in Nigeria, the UK, the EU and the United States. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.