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• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: America the Beautiful
• Composer:  Samuel A. Ward
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SA
• "America the Beautiful" by Samuel A. Ward. Text by Katharine Lee Bates.
  
  Recorded live on May 25, 2015, at St. Joseph's John Knox Village in Tampa, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic D...  more"America the Beautiful" by Samuel A. Ward. Text by Katharine Lee Bates.
  
  Recorded live on May 25, 2015, at St. Joseph's John Knox Village in Tampa, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd.
  
  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!
  
  O 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!
  
  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!  less