Ray Charles - America the Beautiful

      
 
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 O beautiful for spacious skies, for am - ber waves of grain,
 
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 For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
 
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 America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,
 
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 And crown thy good with broth - er - hood
 
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 From sea to shining sea!
 
 
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 O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern im - passion'd stress
 
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 A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wil - der - ness.
 
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 America! A - merica! God mend thine ev' - ry flaw,
 
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 Confirm thy soul in self - control, thy lib - er - ty in law.
 
 
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 O beautiful for patriot dream that sees be - yond the years
 
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 Thine al-a-bas-ter cities gleam un - dim'd by hu - man tears.
 
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 America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,
 
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 And crown thy good with broth - er - hood
 
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 From sea to shining sea!