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And we continue with our American stories.

Our next story is about the famous Christmas Carol.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day.

The song's been recorded by Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Andy Williams, Johnny Marks, and Frank Sinatra,

to name a few. You to tell the story is Robert Morgan, who's the author of 100 Bible verses

that made America defining moments that shaped our enduring foundation of faith.

Let's take a listen.

The famous Longfellow brothers were born and raised in Portland, Maine in the 1800s.

Henry Wadsworth was born in 1807 and Samuel in 1819.

Henry became a Harvard professor of literature and one of America's greatest

writers, authoring works like Paul Revere's Ride. You know the rest. In the books you have read

how the British regulars fired and fled, how the farmers gave them ball for ball from behind each fence and

farm yard wall, chasing the red coats down the lane, then crossing the fields to emerge again

under the trees at the turn of the road and only pausing to fire and load.

So through the night rode Paul Revere, and so through the night went his cry of alarm to every

Middlesex village and farm, a cry of defiance and not of fear, a voice in the darkness, a knock

at the door and a word that shall echo forevermore. For born on the night wind of the past, through all our history to the last, in the hour

of darkness and peril and need, the people will waken and listen to hear the hurrying

hoop beats of that steed, and the midnight message of Paul Revere.

There were over 24 different companies that published his works.

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