America The Beautiful Chords & Tabs

by Misc Traditional

[Content]
America the Beautiful chords
Words by Katharine Lee Bates
Melody by Samuel Ward  1883
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

[Verse 1]
  G             D              
O beautiful for spacious skies,
    D7             G    
for amber waves of grain
                    D         
For purple mountain majesties,
 A        A7      D    D7
above the fruited plain!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
    C                   G           
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
     C      D7      G   
from sea to shining sea!

[Verse 2]
  G             D            
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
      D7                G     
whose stern impassioned stress
                  D            
A thoroughfare of freedom beat,
 A         A7    D   D7
across the wilderness!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7               G   
God mend thine every flaw
   C                G            
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
    C    D7    G   
Thy liberty in law!

[Verse 3]
  G             D             
O beautiful for heroes proved,
   D7         G      
in liberating strife.
                         D             
Who more than self their country loved,
    A     A7        D   D7
and mercy more than life!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7             G   
May God thy gold refine
     C              G         
Till all success be nobleness,
    C     D7     G    
and every gain divine!

[Verse 4]
  G             D             
O beautiful for patriot dream,
     D7              G    
that sees beyond the years
                D            
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
  A         A7    D    D7
undimmed by human tears!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
    C                   G           
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
     C      D7      G   
from sea to shining sea!

[Verse 5]
  G             D             
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
    D7             G     
For amber waves of grain,
                    D        
For purple mountain majesties
 A         A7      D    D7
Above the enameled plain!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
     C                 G            
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
    C     D7      G   
And music-hearted sea!

[Verse 6]
  G             D             
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
      D7               G     
Whose stem impassioned stress
                   D           
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
 A         A7    D    D7
Across the wilderness!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
     C                        G               
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
    C      D7       G    
By pilgrim foot and knee!

[Verse 7]
  G             D         
O beautiful for glory-tale
   D7         G     
Of liberating strife
                         D          
When once and twice, for man's avail
    A        A7       D    D7
Men lavished precious life!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
     C               G           
Till selfish gain no longer stain
    C      D7     G    
The banner of the free!

[Verse 8]
  G             D            
O beautiful for patriot dream
     D7              G    
That sees beyond the years
                D           
Thine alabaster cities gleam
  A         A7    D    D7
Undimmed by human tears!
 G        D      
America! America!
    D7                G   
God shed his grace on thee
     C               G         
Till nobler men keep once again
    C      D7  G   
Thy whiter jubilee!
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