“America The Beautiful” Lyrics
“America The Beautiful” is a song, penned by Katharine Lee Bates and
the composer was Samuel A. Ward, who was an American church organist at Grace
Episcopal Church in New York. Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem that was
originally entitled “Pikes Peak” which was published 4th July 1895
and then the poem was entitled “America”. In 1910, the poem was
First entitled “America the Beautiful” and became the most popular patriotic song in U.S. Katharine Lee Bates was a professor at Wellesley College. In 1893 she was going to City of Colorado Springs by train. Then she was 33 years old. Then several sights on her way inspired her to write the poem. The composer of the poem Samuel A. Ward was inspired to set up the tune when he was coming back from Coney Island to New York City by a ferryboat.
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 divined
And
you know
When I was in school
We used to sing it
Something like this,
Listen here
Oh
beautiful,
For spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
But
now wait a minute,
I'm talking about
America, sweet America
You know, God done shed
His grace on thee
He crowned thy good,
Yes he did, in brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
You
know,
I wish I had somebody
To help me sing this
(America, America,
God shed his grace on thee)
America, I love you America,
You see
My God he done shed
His grace on thee
And you oughta love him for it
'Cause he, he, he,
He crowned thy good
He told me he would,
With brotherhood
(From sea to shining Sea)
Oh Lord, oh Lord,
I thank you Lord
(Shining sea)
