America the Beautiful Harmonica Tab
by Katharine Lee Bates
Key: Any key Harmonica played in 1st Position.
Because of the way a diatonic harmonica is tuned you can play this song with any 10-hole harmonica that you have. However, if you want to jam along in tune with a recording, you will need a harmonica in the key of the recording for the tab below.
6 6 5 5 6 6 -4 -4
Oh beau-ti-ful, for spac-ious skies,
5 -5 6 -6 -7 6
for am-ber waves of grain,
6 6 5 5 6 6 -4 -4
for pur-ple moun-tain ma-jes-ties
-8 7 -8 8 -6 -8
a-bove thy fruit-ed plain,
6 8 8 -8 7 7 -7 -7
A-me-ri-ca, A-mer-i-ca,
7 -8 -7 -6 6 7
God shed his grace on thee.
7 7 -6 -6 7 7 6 6
And crown thy good with broth-er-hood
6 -6 7 6 -8 7
From sea to shin-ing sea.
Repeat music above for each verse below:
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
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 ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabster 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.
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