America The Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain

America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

For 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 crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea, to shining sea

America, America
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea, to shining sea

America

Artist

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Elvis Presley

America the Beautiful

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 every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self-control
Thy liberty in law

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife
Who more than self the 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 stern 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

Lyrics by
Katharine Lee Bates 1913 Final Version
America The Beautiful ~Elvis Presley