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Germantown Academy's school song: "The Alma Mater." Lyrics written by J. Helffenstein Mason, class of 1900. Since the song was authored before 1923, by United States law, if any copyright had existed on the lyrics it has since expired. Therefore, this work is in the public domain. The image above was arranged and typeset by Wikipedian SyntaxPC, who hereby places his contribution in the public domain.

This document was typeset using Lilypond. The source code used to generate this document is as follows:

\version "2.5.2"

\header{
    title = "The Alma Mater"
    subtitle = "School Song of Germantown Academy"
    composer = "J. Helffenstein Mason (188?-??)"
    arranger = "Arranged by Evan A. Sultanik (1982-)"
    lastupdated = "2005-05-26"
    enteredby = "Evan A. Sultanik"
    maintainer = "Evan A. Sultanik"
}

Repeat = {
  c4. g8 e4 c 
  a'2 g4 c,8 \melisma d8 \melismaEnd
  e4 e a a
  g2. r4
  c4. g8 e4 c
  a'2 g4 g8 \melisma a \melismaEnd
  b4 b b b
  b2. r4
  d4. b8 g4 g
  c g e c
  a' a a a
  a2. g4
  c4. c8 c4 c
  e4. d8 c4 a
  g4 a e' b
  c1
}

\score {
<<
  \relative c'' {
    \repeat "Volta" 2 \Repeat
  }
  \addlyrics {
    Hail!  Our Al -- ma 
    Ma -- ter, to __
    Ger -- man -- town we
    sing,
    Che -- rished are the
    mem -- 'ries, which __
    'round thy old walls
    cling.
    May thy glor -- ious
    spi -- rit ev -- er
    stay thy loy -- al
    ones, and
    lead us on to
    vic -- tor -- y, tho'
    foes un -- num -- bered
    come.
  }
  \addlyrics {
    Then what e'er be --
    tide us, we __
    will to -- ge -- ther
    stand,
    By one bond u --
    ni -- ted, one __
    com -- mon im -- pulse
    grand.
    Call us then to --
    ge -- ther, while we
    raise our voi -- ces
    high, And
    fling de -- fi -- ance
    to our foes, thy
    spi -- rit can -- not
    die.
  }
  \set Staff.midiInstrument = "Piano"
>>
  \layout { }
  \midi{ \tempo 4 = 150 }
}

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