AMERICA, WHY I LOVE HER
You ask why I love her? Well, give me time and I'll explain...
Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizonia rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched the cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a Bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines?
Or heard the bellow of a diesel in the Appalachian mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at a Massachusett's shore...
Where men who braved a hard new world, stepped on Plymouth's Rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies... way up high?
Have you seen the sun blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea...
Or bow your head at Gettysburg... in our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons... have you seen an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan, when on a winters day,
Her waters rage along the shore in thunderous display?
Does the word 'Aloha'... make you warm? Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's gold to the Everglades... from the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out... my pulse runs fast, at the might of her domain.
You ask me why I love her? I've a million reasons why!
My beautiful America... beneath God's wide, wide sky.
One Nation, Under God... Indivisible!
