Words by Katharine Lee Bates, music by Samuel Ward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Band of the United States Air Force Reserve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFmY_8jePaE
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 of freedom beat
Across the wilderness
America! America!
God mend thine every 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 every gain divine
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster 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
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O beautiful for halcyon skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea
O beautiful for pilgrims feet
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice, for man's avail
Men lavished precious life
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee