America, the Beautiful cover by Eric Alan Marx.

America, the Beautiful cover by Eric Alan Marx.

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.  (1 Peter 2:16 ESV)

I am singing along with the song that "DiversiTune" did on Youtube.  I created it using Zoom.

America, the Beautiful

Katharine Lee Bates, 1895

Samuel A. Ward, 1883

published in 1910

Verse 1

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!

Verse 2

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Whose stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America!

God mend thine every flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

Verse 3

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!

Verse 4

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!

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