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Ray Charles |
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Miscellaneous |
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America The Beautiful |
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Oh beautiful, for heroes proved, |
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In liberating strife, |
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Who more than self, our country loved, |
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And mercy more than life, |
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America, America, may God thy gold refine, |
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Till all success be nobleness |
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And every gain devined. |
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And you know when I was in school, |
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We used to sing it something like this, listen here: |
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Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, |
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For amber waves of grain, |
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For purple mountain majesties, |
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Above the fruited plain, |
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But now wait a minute, I'm talking about |
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America, sweet America, |
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You know, God done shed his grace on thee, |
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He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood, |
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From sea to shining sea. |
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You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this |
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(America, America, God shed his grace on thee) |
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America, I love you America, you see, |
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My God he done shed his grace on thee, |
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And you oughta love him for it, |
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Cause he, he, he, he, crowned thy good, |
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He told me he would, with brotherhood, |
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(From sea to shining sea). |
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Oh Lord, oh Lord, I thank you Lord |
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(Shining sea). |
