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Old Oct 24, 2005, 12:01 PM
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The first night that David Letterman hosted his show, after 9/11, his musical guest was Guy Davis. Guy is the song of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Here is what he sang. I wish this was our national anthem.

America the Beautiful
Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
Melody by Samuel Ward

O 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 crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
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 every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster 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!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

I'm not as hopeful as I was that night...that everything was going to be okay. That we as Americans, would somehow have a safer place to live and be......

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Old Oct 24, 2005, 12:15 PM
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Thanks, Pat.

Helps get my feet back on the ground and my heart refocused.

Petunia SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT......
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Old Oct 24, 2005, 01:07 PM
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Pat, I've always thought this should be our National Anthem!! SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT......
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Old Oct 24, 2005, 01:13 PM
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I've always thought that it should be too, and I live in the hometown of Francis Scott Key. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT......
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