America The Beautiful

The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates.
The music was composed by Samuel A. Ward.

Stormy Surf on the Chesapeake Bay

Oh, beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties,

Above the fruited plains.

America, America,

God shed his grace on thee

And crowned thy good with brotherhood,

From sea to shining sea.

Interstate Cloverleaf from the air.
Interstate Cloverleaf near the Detroit, Michigan airport taken from the air.

Man sticking out of Hayroll from postcard from Missouri Postcard from Missouri

View from tower at Put In Bay on Lake Erie View of Put-In Bay on Lake Erie taken from the Canadian Peace Memorial tower.

Wisconsin Landscape from air Wisconsin landscape coming into Green Bay airport.

Cut Rock along WVa Highway Cutaway of mountain in West Virginia.

New Point Comfort Lighthouse Mathews VA New Point Comfort Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay

Signed Rocks along Crystal Bay on Lake Erie Painted rocks along Crystal Bay on Lake Erie.

Mountain Range in West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia.

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Page created September 17, 2007. Anne Pemberton. Updated Wednesday, November 24, 2010 . AP.

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