America, the beautiful (Listen to midi)

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1. O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,

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for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain.

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America, America! God shed his grace on thee,

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and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

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2. O beautiful for Pilgrim feet whose stern impassion`d stress

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a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.

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America, America! God mend thine ev`ry flaw.

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Confirm`d thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law.

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3. O beautiful for heroes prov`d in liberating strife,

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who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life.

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America, America! May God thy gold refine,

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till all success be nobleness, and ev`ry gain divine.

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4. O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years.

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Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears.

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America, America! God shed his grace on thee,

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and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.