Month: July 2008

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;His truth is marching on.Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling campsThey have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;His day is marching on.Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching…

America the Beautiful as sung by Ray CharlesOh beautiful, for heroes proved,In liberating strife,Who more than self, our country loved,And mercy more than life,America, America, may God thy gold refine,Till all success be noblenessAnd every gain devined.And you know when I was in school,We used to sing it something like this, listen here:Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majesties,Above the fruited plain,But now wait a minute, I’m talking aboutAmerica, sweet America,You know, God done shed his grace on thee,He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood,From sea to shining sea.You know, I wish…