America The Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
The song‘s lyrics were originally presented as the poem Pikes Peak by Katharine Lee Bates and were put to music by Samuel A Ward.
This is another pre-songs-not-by-me cover. It was the result of a “play a song” assignment in one of my graduate classes with Dr. John Kratus.
Listen below…
2 responses to “America The Beautiful”
Well, I’ve never quite heard it done like that before, sort of a techno Jimi Hendrix during Vietnam. I did find it easy to dance to with a good beat. I’d give it a 9 1/2. How do you like that, Dick Clark?
Positively subversive!