America the Beautiful Song History

The History of America the Beautiful

One of the most patriotic songs in history is America the Beautiful. American the Beautiful has even been considered as a replacement for the National Anthem The Star Spangled Banner. The song America the Beautiful was created in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates and Choir and Song Master Samuel A Ward. Katharine Lee Bates created the lyrics to America the Beautiful as a poem about Pikes Peak. The poem was titled America.

America the Beautiful – the Poem

It was early Spring in 1893 when Katharine Lee Bates had agreed to teach a summer session of schooling in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ms. Bates saw many wonderful sights along the trip to Colorado Springs. Many of the sites she saw during the trip are the inspiration for the Poem titled America. Later to become the most popular Patriotic song in America called America the Beautiful.

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America the Beautiful Song History Continued…

Poem America is published… In 1895, the poem America was published in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the 4th of July. Quickly becoming a very popular poem. America – the Poem saw amended revisions published in 1904 and 1913.

Poem America becomes a Song… Throughout the many years, there have been many pieces of written music attached to the poem America. A tune composed by Samuel A. Ward has often been considered the most popular piece of music attached to the poem. Ward wrote the tune before 1903 and the tune got attached it to the poem in 1910. Ward died in late 1903 and never seen his tune become so widely popular.

America the Beautiful Song Lyrics

O 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 crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov’d
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

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,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

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