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America The Beautiful
(Traditional - Arrangement by Elvis Presley)

Copyright BMI

Original by Henry Burr and Frank Croxton in 1912

As sung by Elvis in concert in 1976 to commemorate the U.S. Bi-Centennial

Live Recording for RCA - December 13, 1975 - The Hilton - Las Vegas
GPA5 3809

June 1977 Single B side RCA PB 11165 My Way / America The Beautiful

August 1980 LP RCA CPL8-3699 Elvis Aron Presley

RCA studio session - February 2-8, 11-12, 1976 - The Jungle Room, Graceland - Memphis
February 7, 12-3 am, 4-7 am

-2 - Excerpt

April 1, 2000 CD FTD 74321 74931-2 CD The Jungle Room Sessions
Outtakes:

Composite of single master and the surviving ending of the erased studio version: December 2013 CD FTD 506020-975052 Moody Blue

O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain

America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
>From sea to shining sea

spoken
For beautiful..for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain..majesties
Above the fruited plain...
America!...America!...
God shed His grace..on thee..
And crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea...to shining sea...

America!..America!!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea...to..shining..sea!!

AMERICA!!!....