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America The Beautiful by Ray Charles - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            America the Beautiful

Words by Katharine Lee Bates
Melody by Samuel Ward
Ray Charles Version

NOTES
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*This is how I play the Ray Charles Version on piano.  Some of
the chords may be more appropriately named in a different manner
but I use the naming conventions that make the most sense to me!

*The slash chords with out a chord in front of the
/ indicate a walking bass line using the same chord you
were already playing.

*Play this seemingly ridculously slow in 12/8 time
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[Verse 1]

    Eb      Edim7  Bb7/F   Bb7
O beautiful for   heroes proved,

Edim7  Fm7  /Ab/A  Bb7   Eb      Edim7  Bb/F  Bb7
   in   liberating        strife.

    Eb             Edim7   Bb7/F   Bb7
Who more than self their   country loved,

  Bb  A  Bb    C7   F7   Bb7  Ab/C  Bb7/D  Bb7   /C
and  mercy     more than life!

 Eb  Gm7  F#dim7  Fm7  Bb7
 America!    America!

Ab/C /C# Bb/D  Bb Ab/C  Bb7/D  Eb    Eb7   /G
May      God  thy gold    refine

     Ab        /Bb  /C /C# /D    Eb
Till all success            be   nobleness,

     Fm7   Bb7 /D  Eb   Edim7  Bb7/F   Bb7
and every gain divine!



[Verse 2]

    Eb      Edim7  Bb7/F   Bb7
O beautiful for spacious skies,

Edim7  Fm7  /Ab/A  Bb7       Eb  Edim7  Bb/F  Bb7
  for amber        waves of grain

    Eb          Edim7   Bb7/F   Bb7
For purple mountain     majesties,

Bb A  Bb  C7  F7  Bb7   Ab/C  Bb7/D  Bb7   /C
above the fruited plain!

 Eb  Gm7  F#dim7  Fm7  Bb7
America!       America!

Ab/C /C# Bb/D  Bb Ab/C  Bb7/D    Eb    Eb7   /G
God      shed his grace    on   thee

    Ab             /Bb  /C /C# /D    Eb
And crown thy good            with   brotherhood,

     Fm7     Bb7 /D  Eb     (or end with whole step walk up after Bb to the Eb (B Db Eb))
from sea to shining sea! 
        

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