America, The Beautiful

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America, The Beautiful

• Words by Katherine Lee Bates in 1893
• Music by Samuel A Ward in 1882
• PP by Kristin Lukow

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Oh beautiful, for spacious skies
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For amber waves grain,
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For purple mountain majesties
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Above the fruited plain.
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America
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America
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God shed His grace on Thee,
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And crown thy good
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With brotherhood
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From sea
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To shining sea.
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Oh beautiful, for pilgrim feet
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whose stern impassioned stress.
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A thoroughfare for freedom beat
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Across the wilderness
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America, America,
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God mend thine every flaw.
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Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in
law.
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Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
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In liberating strife
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Who more than self their country loved,
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And mercy more than life.
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America, America
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May God thy gold refine.
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Till all success be nobleness,
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And every gain divine.
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O beautiful, for spacious skies
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For amber waves grain,
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For purple mountain majesties
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Above the fruited plain.
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America, America
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God shed His grace on Thee.
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And crown thy good
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With brotherhood
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From sea
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To shining sea.
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And crown Thy good
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With brotherhood
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From sea
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To shining sea.
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