America the Beautiful

"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.

Lyrics:
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 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!

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!

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
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• america
• the
• beautiful
• usa

[Lalo3001]

With all due respect to the Star Spangled Banner, this SHOULD be the National Anthem!

Face it, SSB is extremely hard to sing unless your Mariah Carey and reflects on one battle nearly 200 years ago.

America the Beautiful sings about our great country in all her God given splendor :)

[13purpleberry]

I LOVE AMERICA AND IM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN MUSLIM.GOD BLESS USA.

[whatsinanameble]

god bless america!!!!!!! i am dutch.

[samwst56]

Rally round the flag. 

[ChetzNation]

@samwst56 I'm a wuss faggot moron and I need to eat my own feces and die? That's a good point. I feel like I'm learning a lot from this discussion.

[ChetzNation]

@samwst56 ...YouTube is an international multilingual website based in silicon valley.

[gomauro]

@samwst56 im sorry you have cancer....best to live out your last days trying to find some JOY. GOD Bless

[samwst56]

The USA: love it or leave it. Lots of bitch fags and anarchists here. Go live in Syria and Iran.

We have to deport all somalis and other moo-slime immediately. They are anarchists and other such scum who are intent on ruining our beloved country.

[MrMrmilitia]

@samwst56 get a life

[samwst56]

Be glad for the USA. Only in America do we have a YouTube, where decent people and slimeball scum can speak their minds!

Hail to YouTube!

[samwst56]

@MrMrmilitia lern2sple. Then get a job.