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America The Beautiful

Traditional,. arranged by Elvis Presley

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America The Beautiful

Traditional,. arranged by Elvis Presley

Lyrics:

O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain

America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

For 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 crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea...to shining sea...

America!..America!!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea...to..shining..sea!!

AMERICA!!!....
More info:

Katherine Lee Bates, an English teacher at Wellesley College in Massachussetts, was inspired to write the poem America The Beautiful in the summer of 1893 after taking in the view from the summit of Pike's Peak. The poem was first published on July 4, 1895, in The Congregationalist, a Boston periodical. It was later set to music (exact date unknown), using the melody of Materna. Materna had been composed by Samuel Augustus Ward and first published on July 12, 1888, in The Parish Choir in Boston. It previously had been used as the melody for the hymn O Mother Dear Jersusalem.

Frank Sinatra had a popular recording of America The Beautiful (Columbia 36886) in 1945; it was the flip side of his hit, The House I Live In.

Elvis sang America The Beautiful at many of his concerts from 1975 to 1977. The single release was recorded at the midnight show at the Las Vegas Hilton on December 13, 1975. The labels of the promotional copies and some of the commercial releases incorrectly listed the song's title as America. America The Beautiful failed to chart. The song was played by three children on kazoos in Elvis's 1969 movie, The Trouble With Girls.

Many television stations use Ray Charles's version of America The Beautiful to sign off at night.
Lyrics: O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain

America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

For 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 crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea...to shining sea...

America!..America!!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea...to..shining..sea!!

AMERICA!!!....
More info: Katherine Lee Bates, an English teacher at Wellesley College in Massachussetts, was inspired to write the poem America The Beautiful in the summer of 1893 after taking in the view from the summit of Pike's Peak. The poem was first published on July 4, 1895, in The Congregationalist, a Boston periodical. It was later set to music (exact date unknown), using the melody of Materna. Materna had been composed by Samuel Augustus Ward and first published on July 12, 1888, in The Parish Choir in Boston. It previously had been used as the melody for the hymn O Mother Dear Jersusalem.

Frank Sinatra had a popular recording of America The Beautiful (Columbia 36886) in 1945; it was the flip side of his hit, The House I Live In.

Elvis sang America The Beautiful at many of his concerts from 1975 to 1977. The single release was recorded at the midnight show at the Las Vegas Hilton on December 13, 1975. The labels of the promotional copies and some of the commercial releases incorrectly listed the song's title as America. America The Beautiful failed to chart. The song was played by three children on kazoos in Elvis's 1969 movie, The Trouble With Girls.

Many television stations use Ray Charles's version of America The Beautiful to sign off at night.