America The Beautiful tab by Traditional

America the Beautiful
words - Katharine Bates 1913
music - Samuel Ward
tabbed by Craig Sihner sihn77@home.com

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  O beau-tiful  for spac--ious skies,

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  For am-ber waves of grain,

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  For purp-le moun-tain maj-es-ties

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  A-bove the fruit-ed plain!

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  A-mer--i-ca! A-mer--i-ca!

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  God shed his grace on thee

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  And crown thy good with broth--erhood

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  From sea to shin-ing sea!


7 more verses with different words or
variations, but music is the same.

Note: I declare that the above tablature
was done by ear and is all my own work.

Craig Sihner  sihn77@home.com