From the recording Songs From The Silo

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Music by Samuel Ward, Lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates

Lyrics

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America, sweet America
God done shed his grace on thee
He crowned thy good, yes he did, in brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

Oh 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
'Til 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