Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,
Than when we first begun.
Amazing Grace has set me free,
To touch, to taste, to feel;
The wonders of accepting love,
Have made me whole and real.
My native county, thee
Land of the noble free
Thy name I love
I love the rocks and rills
Thy woods and templed hills
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above
Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song
Let mortal tongues awake
Let all that breates partake
Let rocks for silence break
The sound prolong
Our father's God to thee
Author of liberty
To thee we sing
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light
Protect us by thy might
Great God, our king
O, beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress,
A thoroughfare for 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 heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
Till all succeed be nobleness,
And every gain divine!
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.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are
stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightening of his terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on
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He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgement seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
And saw above me that endless skyway,
And saw below me the golden valley, I said:
This land is made for you and me
I roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts,
And all around me , a voice was sounding:
This land is made for you and me
Was a high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said: Private Property,
But on the back side it didn't say nothing –
This land is made for you and me
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling;
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting:
This land is made for you and me
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw my people --
As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if
This land is made for you and me
Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy
Father and I went down to camp along with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys, as thick as hasty pudding
There was Colonel Washington, upon a strapping stallion
A-giving orders to his men, I guess there was a million
And there I saw a cannon barrel as big as a mother’s basin
And every time they touched it off, they scampered like the nation