Oh 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

Oh beautiful for pilgrim feet

Whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare of freedom beat

Across the wilderness

America, America

God mend thine every flaw

Confirm thy soul in self-control

Thy liberty in law

Oh beautiful for heroes proved

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 every gain divine

Oh 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

Oh beautiful for halcyon skies

For amber waves of grain

For purple mountain majesties

Above the enameled plain

America, America

God shed His grace on thee

Till souls wax fair as earth and air

And music hearted sea

Oh beautiful for pilgrims feet

Whose stem impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness

America, America

God shed His grace on thee

Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought

By pilgrim foot and knee

Oh beautiful for glory tale of liberating strife

When once and twice for man's avail

Men lavished precious life

America, America

God shed His grace on thee

Till selfish gain no longer stain

The banner of the free

Oh 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

Till nobler men keep once again thy whiter jubilee

Oh 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