English: 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.

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 \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 } }