Sung by Kate Smith

God bless America, Land that I love.

Stand beside her and guide her

through the night with the light from above

From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam

God bless America, my home sweet home.

God bless America, land that I love,

Stand beside her and guide her 

through the night with the light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam,

God bless America, my home sweet home.

From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home

God bless America, my home sweet home.

 

It was in the fall of 1938, as war was again threatening Europe, that Irving Berlin decided to write a "peace" song.  Then he recalled his "God Bless America" song that he had written  twenty years earlier.  He made some alterations to reflect the different state of the world and “God Bless America” was born.  Singer Kate Smith introduced "God Bless America" during her radio broadcast on Armistice Day, 1938.  The song was an immediate sensation and its sheet music was in great demand.  As a result Berlin soon established the God Bless America Fund, dedicating the royalties to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America.