America The Beautiful

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


D7 G     Em Edim Am7      D7    C   C/B  Am7  D7       G   Edim  D7
O beautiful for spacious skies, for am - ber waves of grain,

D7   G      Em Edim Am7    D7  Fdim D7  E7  A7     D7
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

  G  D7  D9   C  D7   Am7  D9  Am7   D   D7  G    GM7  G7  
America! A - merica!  God shed His grace on thee,

Fdim C         Am7        G    G/F#     Em 
And crown thy good with broth  -  er - hood

D7   C  Am7  D  D7   G    Em7    D7
From sea to shining sea!



D7 G    Em Edim Am7      D7          C   C/B  Am7  D7     G   Edim  D7
O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern im - passion'd stress

D7  G      Em Edim Am7     D7     Fdim D7  E7    A7     D7
A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wil - der - ness.

G  D7    D9   C  D7   Am7  D9  Am7   D     D7  G   GM7   G7
America! A - merica!  God mend thine ev' - ry flaw,

Fdim C       Am7     G  G/F#     Em   D7   C   Am7   D  D7  G  Em7  D7
Confirm thy soul in self  -  control, thy lib - er - ty in law.



D7 G    Em Edim Am7      D7         C   C/B  Am7  D7    G   Edim  D7
O beautiful for patriot dream that sees be - yond the years

D7    G    Em Edim Am7     D7         Fdim D7 E7   A7   D7
Thine al-a-bas-ter cities gleam un - dim'd by hu - man tears.

  G  D7  D9   C  D7   Am7  D9  Am7   D   D7  G    GM7  G7  
America! A - merica!  God shed His grace on thee,

C         Am7        G    G/F#     Em 
And crown thy good with broth  -  er - hood

D7   C  Am7  D  D7   G    
From sea to shining sea!

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