TITLE = America the Beautiful
Words = Katharine Lee Bates
Melody = Samuel Ward
CAPTION = Folk
CATEGORY = DEMO
CATEGORY = Patriotic
Speed = Text1
Font = 41
Beats = 4
Measures = 2
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Oh Beautiful for spacious skies
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For amber waves of grain
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For purple mountains, majesties
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Above the fruited plain
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America, America
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God shed his grace on thee
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And crown thy good
     C 
With brotherhood
     F      G       C 
From sea to shining sea
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O beautiful for pilgrim feet 
      F       G         C      G
Whose stern impassioned stress
  C               G
A thoroughfare of freedom beat 
 A               D
Across the wilderness! 
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America! America! 
    G                C
God mend thine every flaw, 
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Confirm thy soul in self-control, 
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Thy liberty in law
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O beautiful for heroes proved 
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In liberating strife. 
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Who more than self their country loved
    A               D
And mercy more than life 
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America! America! 
    G            C
May God thy gold refine 
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Till all success be nobleness 
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And every gain divine
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O beautiful for patriot dream 
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That sees beyond the years 
      C         G 
Thine alabaster cities gleam 
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Undimmed by human tears! 
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America  America
    G                 C
God shed his grace on thee 
    F                   C
And crown thy good with brotherhood 
     F      G       C
From sea to shining sea
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O beautiful for halcyon skies, 
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For amber waves of grain, 
    C               g
For purple mountain majesties 
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Above enameled plains 
 C        F
America! America
    G                 C
God shed his grace on thee 
     F                 C
Till souls wax fair as earth and air 
    F     G       C
And music-hearted sea
  C             G
O beautiful for pilgrims feet, 
      F                G
Whose stem impassioned stress 
  C                G
A thoroughfare for freedom beat 
 A               D
Across the wilderness
 C        F 
America! America
    G                 C 
God shed his grace on thee 
     F            
Till paths be wrought through 
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wilds of thought 
   F       G        C
By pilgrim foot and knee
   C              G 
Oh Beautiful for spacious skies
    F     G        C      G   
For amber waves of grain
    C                 G  
For purple mountains, majesties
 A                D
Above the fruited plain
 C        F
America, America
    G                 C 
God shed his grace on thee
    F         
And crown thy good
     C 
With brotherhood
     F      G       C 
From sea to shining sea