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" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song. The words are written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward. Bates originally wrote...
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Katherine Lee Bates did just that back in 1893, and the view she saw inspired her to write the words to America the Beautiful. ... By 1893 she had written a number of books, including her research into the history of American literature. But the work that she is best known for is the poem that became the country's second...
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"America the Beautiful" - Katharine Lee Bates & Samuel Ward ... History of an American folk song ... "America the Beautiful" (lyrics and guitar tab)—often called the national hymn of the United States—was adapted from a poem by a Wellsely College English professor named Katharine Lee Bates, written in 1893. She wrote the...
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brief history of America the Beautiful along with the 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!
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America the Beautiful - with music and including a bit of the music's history (plays sound on loading the page) ... Sherr, Lynn. America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song. 2001. (compare prices) ... America the Beautiful - Folk Song History of America the Beautiful...
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Bates, who eventually became a full professor of English literature at Wellesley College, made a lecture trip to Colorado in 1893 and there she wrote the words to "America the Beautiful." As she told it, "We strangers celebrated the close of the session by a merry expedition to the top of ... History of the American West,
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