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America The Beautiful

Barbra Streisand

RockMedium for beginners15 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Am7×○○○
D7××○
G○○○
Em○○○○
EdimDiagram coming soon
C×○○
BDiagram coming soon
FdimDiagram coming soon
E7○○○○
A7×○○○
D9Diagram coming soon
D××○
G7○○○
F#Diagram coming soon
Em7○○○○○

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Introdução: Am7 D7 G  
 
D7 G     Em Edim Am7      D7    C   C/B  Am7  D7       G Edim D7 
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain 
D7   G      Em Edim Am7    D7  Fdim D7  E7  A7     D7 
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain 
  G  D7  D9  C  D7  Am7  D9  Am7   D   D7  G   G7M G7   
America!  America!  God shed His grace on thee 
Fdim C         Am7        G G/F#  Em  
And crown thy  good  with  brotherhood 
D7   C  Am7  D  D7   G    Em7    D7 
From sea to shining sea 
 
Interlude: G D7 D9 C D7 Am7 D9 Am7 D D7 G G7M G7 C Am7 G G/F# Em  
                        D7 C Am7 D D7 G 
    
D7 G    Em Edim Am7      D7          C C/B  Am7  D7    G   Edim D7 
O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassion'd stress 
D7  G      Em Edim Am7     D7     Fdim D7 E7 A7  D7 
A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness 
G  D7    D9  C  D7  Am7  D9  Am7   D     D7  G   G7M G7 
America!  America!  God  mend  thine  ev'ry  flaw, 
Fdim C       Am7     G  G/F#   Em  D7  C   Am7   D  D7 G Em7 D7 
Confirm thy soul in  selfcontrol,  thy  liberty  in  law 
D7 G    Em Edim Am7      D7         C  C/B  Am7  D7    G Edim D7 
O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond  the  years 
D7    G    Em Edim Am7     D7      Fdim D7 E7   A7   D7 
Thine  alabaster  cities  gleam undim'd  by  human  tears 
  G  D7  D9   C  D7   Am7  D9  Am7   D   D7  G   G7M G7   
America!  America!  God  shed  His grace on thee 
 C    Am7      G   G/F#      Em  
And crown thy good with  brotherhood 
D7   C  Am7  D  D7   G     
From sea to shining sea

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Chord set

Am7 · D7 · G · Em · Edim · C · B · Fdim · E7 · A7 · D9 · D · G7 · F# · Em7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.