"America,
America, God shed His grace on thee.."
You ask me why I love her ? Well, give me time and I'll explain.
Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain ?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way ?
Have you watched the cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay ?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines
Or heard the bellow of a diesel at the Appalachia mines ?
Does the call of the Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar ?
Do you look with awe and wonder at her Massachusetts shore...
Where men, who braved a hard new world, first stepped on Plymouth's rock
?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock ?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies...way up high ?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky ?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea...
Or bow your head at Gettysburg...at our struggle to be free ?
Have you seen the mighty Titans?...Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore ?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan, when on a winter's day,
Her waters rage along the shore in thunderous display ?
Does the word "Aloha"...make you warm ? Do you stare in
disbelief
When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea Reef ?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades...from the Rio Grande to Maine...
My heart cries out...my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain
You ask me why I love her ?...I've a million reasons why.
My beautiful America...beneath God's wide, wide sky.
"And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea."
