Martina Mariea McBride has a legendary career as a Country Music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She has an amazing soprano singing range and has recorded over 13 studio albums in addition to some greatest hit releases and live performance albums.
Martina achieved five No. 1 singles on the Country Music charts between 1995 and 2001. In 2001, a little more than a month after 9/11, Martina McBride delivered a soul-stirring rendition of “America The Beautiful.” Watch the heartfelt performance below.
America the Beautiful Lyrics:
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 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 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 ev’ry 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!
Martina delivered the classic patriotic tune with so much grace and sincereity— it’s hard not to be moved to tears. God Bless America.
