Katherine Lee Bates, lyrics Samuel Ward
Key: C
C C G Dm G7 C G7
V.1: O | beautiful for | spacious skies, for | amber waves of | grain
C G G D7 G G7
For | purple mountain | majesties a- | bove the fruited | plain
C G7 G F G7 C C7
A- | merica, A- | merica, God | shed His grace on | thee
F C F G G7 C
And | crown thy good with | brotherhood from | sea to shin- ing | sea
Key: G
G G D Am D7 G D7
V.1: O | beautiful for | spacious skies, for | amber waves of | grain
G D D A7 D D7
For | purple mountain | majesties a- | bove the fruited | plain
G D7 D C D7 G G7
A- | merica, A- | merica, God | shed His grace on | thee
C G C D D7 G
And | crown thy good with | brotherhood from | sea to shin- ing | sea
Key: A
A A E Bm E7 A E7
V.1: O | beautiful for | spacious skies, for | amber waves of | grain
A E E B7 E E7
For | purple mountain | majesties a- | bove the fruited | plain
A E7 E D E7 A A7
A- | merica, A- | merica, God | shed His grace on | thee
D A D E E7 A
And | crown thy good with | brotherhood from | sea to shin- ing | sea
V.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
V.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
V.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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