O beautiful for spacious skies, for am - ber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with broth - er - hood

From sea to shining sea!


O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern im - passion'd stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wil - der - ness.

America! A - merica! God mend thine ev' - ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self - control, thy lib - er - ty in law.


O beautiful for patriot dream that sees be - yond the years

Thine al-a-bas-ter cities gleam un - dim'd by hu - man tears.

America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with broth - er - hood

From sea to shining sea!

America The Beautiful
Words & Music by Katharine Lee Bates & Samuel Lee Ward
Recorded by Ray Charles, 1961