America the Beautiful

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Versions of
America the Beautiful (1895)
by Katharine Lee Bates

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America the Beautiful was written in 1893 and was published in The Congregationalist in 1895 with the title America. It is most famously sung to Samuel Augustus Ward's 1882 tune "Materna", with which it was first published in 1910.

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Versions of America the Beautiful include:

"America the Beautiful", sheet music published 1917
"O Beautiful for Spacious Skies" in The Army and Navy Hymnal, 1920

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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