Connecticut Wide-Awake Songster is a collection of songs by various authors featuring political and nationalistic themes throughout early American independence history. Excerpt:

"Awake! ye sons of freedom, rise!

Can ye not hear your country's cries?

Were ye but told that foes invade,

That rifles flash and deadly blade

Seek to destroy her glorious peace,

How swift your arms to bring release!

Strengthen your arms! lest dangers come

More fearful than the victim's doom;

Lest faction riot through our land,

Lest brother, slain by brother's hand,

Calls loud to Heaven for vengeance on

This happiest nation 'neath the sun."