1. America
the Beautiful

2. Do you recognize this song?
This song describes America’s beauty.
The words to this song were written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893.

3. She made a cross country trip from Boston to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

4. After she climbed to the top of Pike’s Peak, she was inspired to write this poem.
The poem was later set to music.

5. O beautiful for spacious skies,

6. For amber waves of grain,

7. For purple mountain majesties

8. Above the fruited plain!

9. America!

10. America!

11. God shed His grace on thee,

12. And crown thy good

13. with brotherhood

14. From sea

15. to shining sea!

16. From one coast to the other