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America the Beautiful song
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| America the Beautiful |
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| More about this song / Easy reading version with music |
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O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! ======================== O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness. America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law. ================== O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life. America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness, And ev'ry gain divine. ====================== O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears. America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. Tell us! More about this song Written by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) as a poem after a trip to Pike's Peak. It underwent a number of revisions before it became the current form. The music is not Ms. Bates work, but is actually from another song named "Materna." (Samuel A. Ward in 1882). There were numerous contests to create alternate music to the song, but the Materna version is the one that stuck. Tell us! Bussongs.com Copyright Policy |
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