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"America the Beautiful"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. Its lyrics
were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by
church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal
Church in Newark, New Jersey, though the two never met. It
functions as a popular patriotic tune for civic events but is
also widely classified and sung as a national hymn due to its
religious imagery, spiritual themes, and traditional church-style
melody.

Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".
It was first published in the Fourth of July 1895 edition of the
church periodical, The Congregationalist. At that time, the poem
was titled "America". Ward had initially composed the song's
melody in 1882 to accompany lyrics to "Materna", basis of the hymn,
"O Mother dear, Jerusalem", though the hymn was not first published
until 1892. The combination of Ward's melody and Bates's poem was
first entitled "America the Beautiful" in 1910. The song is one of
the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.

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Words:

In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at
Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs,
Colorado, to teach at Colorado College. Several of the sights on
her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem,
including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the
"White City" with its promise of the future contained within its
gleaming white buildings; the wheat fields of North America's
heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16;
and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Pikes
Peak. On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem
started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning
to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel. The poem was
initially published two years later in The Congregationalist to
commemorate the Fourth of July. It quickly caught the public's
fancy. An amended version was published in 1904.

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Music:

The first known melody written for the song was sent in by Silas
Pratt when the poem was published in The Congregationalist. By
1900, at least 75 different melodies had been written. A hymn
tune composed in 1882 by Samuel A. Ward, the organist and choir
director at Grace Church, Newark, was generally considered the
best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today.
Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, too, was
inspired. The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip
from Coney Island back to his home in New York City after a
leisurely summer day and he immediately wrote it down. He composed
the tune for the old hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem", retitling
the work "Materna". Ward's music combined with Bates's poem were
first published together in 1910 and titled "America the Beautiful".

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Contender for U.S. National Anthem:

At various times in the more than one hundred years that have
elapsed since the song was written there have been efforts to give
"America the Beautiful" legal status either as a national hymn or
as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, "The Star-Spangled
Banner", but so far this has not succeeded.

Proponents prefer "America the Beautiful" for various reasons,
saying it is easier to sing, more melodic, and more adaptable to
new orchestrations while still remaining as easily recognizable
as "The Star-Spangled Banner". Some object to the war-oriented
imagery of "The Star-Spangled Banner", as well as its implicit
support of slavery and racism in the third verse. Some who prefer
"The Star-Spangled Banner", however, prefer it specifically for
its war themes. While that national dichotomy has stymied any
effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem,
"America the Beautiful" continues to be held in high esteem by a
large number of Americans, and was even being considered before
1931 as a candidate to become the national anthem of the United
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Popular Usage:

Elvis Presley performed it many times in concerts starting in 1976.

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang
Songs (1961).

Frank Sinatra recorded the song with Nelson Riddle during the
sessions for The Concert Sinatra in February 1963, for a projected
45 single release.

In 1976, while the United States celebrated its bicentennial, a
soulful version popularized by Ray Charles peaked at number 98 on
the US R&B chart. His version was traditionally played on New
Year's Eve in Times Square following the ball drop. Charles
performed the song at Republican National Convention in August
1984 and Super Bowl XXXV in January 2001.

Three different renditions of the song have entered the Hot
Country Songs charts. The first was by Charlie Rich, which went
to number 22 in 1976. A second, by Mickey Newbury, peaked at
number 82 in 1980. An all-star version of the song reached number
58 in July 2001. The song re-entered the chart following the
September 11 attacks.

The song has been sung before many editions of the WWE's flagship
annual show WrestleMania beginning at WrestleMania 2 in 1986,
interchangeably with The Star-Spangled Banner.

During her rise to stardom, R&B singer Mariah Carey sang the song
at the 1990 NBA Finals.

Whitney Houston also recorded the song, covering Ray Charles'
soulful rearranged version as the B-side to her 1991 rendition of
"The Star Spangled Banner."

The song has been performed as part of the Indianapolis 500
pre-race ceremonies since 1991.

The US singer/songwriter Martin Sexton recorded a gospel-tinged
version on his LP "Black Sheep," released in 1996.

Popularity of the song increased greatly in the decades following
9/11; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the
traditional singing of the national anthem.

The hymn has been featured in the pregame for a number of Super
Bowls, the championship game for each NFL season. It is sung
before the "Star-Spangled Banner" and after the hymn "Lift Every
Voice and Sing," commonly referred to as the "Black national
anthem".

For Super Bowl XLVIII, The Coca-Cola Company aired a multilingual
version of the song, sung in several different languages. The
commercial received some criticism on social media sites and from
some conservatives. Despite the controversies, Coca-Cola later
reused the Super Bowl ad during Super Bowl LI, the opening
ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics
and for patriotic holidays.

In 2016, American five-piece girl group Fifth Harmony performed a
rendition to honor the United States women's national soccer team
on defeating Japan 5–2 to win the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

In 2021, Jennifer Lopez performed the song at the inauguration
of Joe Biden, as the second half of a medley with "This Land Is
Your Land" by Woody Guthrie.

In 2023, Cécile McLorin Salvant performed the song at the US Open
woman's final notably skipping ahead to the lyrics of the
second half of the second verse while singing the first verse
(replacing "God shed His grace on thee..." with "God mend thine
every flaw...", etc.).

In 2025 Carrie Underwood sang the song a capella after what were
described as “technical difficulties” caused the failure of her
backing music, during the second inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Verse 1:

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!

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Image: Wheat field ready for harvest in central Kansas.
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Image: View of Pikes Peak from Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Verse 2:

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

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Verse 3:
O 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!

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Verse 4:
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!



On the way to Colorado, Bates stopped at the World’s Columbian
Exposition in Chicago. The Manufacturing and Liberal Arts
Building featured an exhibit about Wellesley College. Bates
wrote the section about the English department. Greek and Roman
architecture inspired the designs for several exhibition halls.
Builders covered the façades with staff, a white material made of
plaster and hemp fiber. The Exposition was the first world’s fair
entirely powered by electricity, which illuminated the “gleam” of
the “alabaster cities.”

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Our painting of the week is "Fourth Of July - Fireworks on the
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