Patriotic Song Lyrics

1 America the Beautiful

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!,
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!,
3) O beautiful for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,,
Who more than self their country love,
And mercy more than life!,
America! America!,
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,,,
And every gain divine!,
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!,
--by Katherine Lee Bates; (1859-1929)

3 God Bless the U.S.A.

1) If tomorrow all the things were gone
I worked for all my life
And I had to start again
With just my children and my wife
I thank my lucky stars
To be living here today
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom
And they can't take that away

CHORUS: And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
And I'd gladly stand up next to you
And defend Her still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.

2) From the lakes of Minnesota
To the hills of Tennessee
Across the plains of Texas
From sea to shining sea
From Detroit down to Houston
And New York to L.A.
Where's pride in every American heart
And it's time we stand and say

CHORUS (2X)

--Lee Greenwood;
(1942--)

4 My Country, 'Tis of Thee

1) My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
2) My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills.
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
3) Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom’s song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
4) Our fathers’ God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light.
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
--by Samuel Francis Smith; (1808–1895)

5 The Battle Hymn of the Republic

1) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

CHORUS: Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

2) He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on.

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3) In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free,
While God is marching on.

CHORUS

--by Julia Ward Howe; (1819–1910)

6 The Star-Spangled Banner

(Please rise.)
1) Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

2) On the shore, dimly seen thru the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;
’Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

3) Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
--by Francis Scott Key; (1779–1843)

7 This Land Is Your Land

CHORUS: This land is your land and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

1) As I went a-walkin' that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
Saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me

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2) I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

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3)When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me

CHORUS

--by Woody Guthrie; (1912-1967)

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