America The Beautiful chords by Samuel Ward

Chords with lyrics

America the Beautiful chords
Words by Katharine Lee Bates
Melody by Samuel Ward

  G+G       D MajorD
O beautiful for spacious skies,
  D7D7       G+G
for amber waves of grain
          D MajorD
For purple mountain majesties,
 A augmentedA    A7A7   D MajorD  D7D7
above the fruited plain!
 G+G    D MajorD
America! America!
  D7D7        G+G
God shed his grace on thee
  C majorC          G+G
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
   C majorC   D7D7   G+G
from sea to shining sea!

 G+G       D MajorD
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
   D7D7        G+G
whose stern impassioned stress
         D MajorD
A augmentedA thoroughfare of freedom beat,
 A augmentedA     A7A7  D MajorD  D7D7
across the wilderness!
 G+G    D MajorD
America! America!
  D7D7        G+G
God mend thine every flaw
  C majorC        G+G
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
  C majorC  D7D7  G+G
Thy liberty in law!

 G+G       D MajorD
O beautiful for heroes proved,
  D7D7     G+G
in liberating strife.
             D MajorD
Who more than self their country loved,
  A augmentedA   A7A7    D MajorD  D7D7
and mercy more than life!
 G+G    D MajorD
America! America!
  D7D7       G+G
May God thy gold refine
   C majorC       G+G
Till all success be nobleness,
  C majorC   D7D7   G+G
and every gain divine!

 G+G       D MajorD
O beautiful for patriot dream,
   D7D7       G+G
that sees beyond the years
        D MajorD
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
 A augmentedA     A7A7  D MajorD  D7D7
undimmed by human tears!
 G+G    D MajorD
America! America!
  D7D7        G+G
God shed his grace on thee
  C majorC          G+G
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
   C majorC   D7D7   G+G
from sea to shining sea!


O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A augmentedA thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

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
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

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