AMERICA - Samuel Ward 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!
GOD BLESS AMERICA - Irving Berlin God Bless America, Land that I love Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home. God Bless America, Land that I love Stand beside her, And guide her, Through the night with the light from above, From the mountains, To the prairies, To the ocean, White with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home. God bless America, My home sweet home.
MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE - Samuel F. Smith My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrim's pride! From every mountain side, Let freedom ring! My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture fills, Like that above.
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER - Francis Scott Key O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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