God Save My Country Tis of Thee Queen

As Americans (or one American and one American resident alien), the UK national anthem sounds distinctly familiar. Not because we were brought up with allegiance to the Queen, of course, but because there is an American hymn with the exact same melody. I finally did a bit of googling to find out which hymn it was and discovered that "God Save The Queen" is the same melody as "My Country Tis of Thee". GSTQ was obviously first, so it seems it was the Americans that plagiarized it.

With your sound turned on:

God Save The Queen
(circa 1736/1740)

My Country Tis of Thee
(words: 1832 and music: 1744)

-RP-