(2008)
In honor of National American Indian Heritage Month,
here is a beautiful rendition of "America The Beautiful"
performed by Cherokee mezzo-soprano Barbara McAlister,
during a Veterans Day ceremony held
at the National Museum of the American Indian
in Washington DC in 2007.
at the National Museum of the American Indian
in Washington DC in 2007.
Ms. McAlister is accompanied in her song by
Comanche composer and classical pianist,
Dr. David Yeagley
America The Beautiful
Sung by Barbara McAlister (Cherokee)
Accompanied on the piano by
Dr. David Yeagley (Comanche)
Accompanied on the piano by
Dr. David Yeagley (Comanche)
(2007)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains 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 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 success 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!
Honoring Our American Heroes
Choctaw Code Talkers during
World War I completely baffled the Germans
with a new kind of American military intelligence:
Their own native language!
During WWII, there were 400 American Indian Code Talkers
from the Navajo, Comanche, Cherokee, Lakota, Meskwaki, and
Choctaw tribes whose unique vocabulary and tribal symbolism
confounded both the Nazis and the Japanese and help
America to win the war.
"America The Beautiful"
Lyrics written by Katharine Lee Bates
(1893)
Music by Will C. MacFarlane
Lyrics written by Katharine Lee Bates
(1893)
Music by Will C. MacFarlane
(1913)
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