Folk Music America The Beautiful Lyrics

America The Beautiful 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 stai