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“America the Beautiful”

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  1. An American patriotic hymn from the nineteenth century. It begins, “O beautiful for spacious skies.”


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Brandi Carlile will sing “America the Beautiful” and Grammy-winning artist Coco Jones will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also before the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Upbeat new ads promoting travel to the U.S. under the theme “America the Beautiful” are set to begin running next week in Europe and Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

She encouraged everyone in the room to participate as she sang “America the Beautiful” entirely a cappella.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

As they stood around waiting, they held wineglasses and sang “America the Beautiful” and “God Bless the USA.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2024

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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