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Sheet music for "Adams and Liberty: A Boston Patriotic Song," second edition, two pages on adjoining sheets, 9 x 14, no date but circa 1798–1800. Featuring lyrics by Thomas Paine, A.M. (1773–1811), son of lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence Robert Treat Paine, and set to the music of 'The Anacreontic Song,' composed by John Stafford Smith, this is widely recognized as America's first presidential campaign song. The song makes note of contemporary world events, including the 'Quasi-War,' and invokes the name of the United States of America's founding document and famous warship, 'Constitution.' The fourth verse, in part: "While France her huge limbs bashes recumbent in blood, / And society's base threatens with wide dissolution / May Peace, like the Dove, who return'd from the flood, / Find an Ark of abode in our mild Constitution!"
The song concludes by promoting John Adams for president: "Let Fame to the world sound America's voice; / No Intrigue can her sons from their Government sever; / Her Pride is her Adams—his Laws are her Choice, / And shall flourish, till Liberty slumber forever! / Then unite, heart and hand, / Like Leonidas' band, / And swear to the God of the ocean and land." In very good condition, with some small stains, and paper loss and separation along the hinge resulting in a rough right edge.
