Mitt Romney Sings 'America The Beautiful' (VIDEO, LYRICS)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney led his supporters in singing "America the Beautiful" at a campaign event in Florida on the eve of the state's primary election.

(Scroll down for the song lyrics.)

USA Today reports:

Reciting the words to America the Beautiful has long been a part of his stump speech, but ending the final full day of campaigning at The Villages on Monday Romney felt so good that he sang instead.

The latest polls show Romney running ahead of the pack in Florida going into the state's primary contest.

President Barack Obama recently made headlines when he sang a short rendition of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Green was in attendance at the event.

Below, the lyrics for "America the Beautiful" via the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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 prov'd
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.

 

 

Comments

[southingtonian]

11:13 PM on 02/08/2012

anyone else notice the resemblance between romney's delivery style and the 'we drove down' speech of the character 'senator keely' in ' the birdcage'?

[Geraldine Laconti]

10:30 AM on 02/02/2012

Maybe he can get a job in a rock band if the Presidential bid goes wrong.

[Stringer32]

03:49 AM on 02/02/2012

Creepy

[tekemsu]

09:43 PM on 02/01/2012

Oh, ok. Now I get it. This why musicians are democrats. Republicans are off key. Just sayin.

[AnathTheGoddess]

06:46 PM on 02/01/2012

On the Tonight Show, the FLOTUS was very gracious when asked about Mitt's singing. She said it was a beautiful song, a song meant to be sung by every American no matter what their political party.

[Tanya OaksBrooks]

05:28 PM on 02/01/2012

OMG...that is SO bad. I've said for a long time that Mitt was tone deaf, meaning that he has no idea what the American people need, but I had no idea that he was LITERALLY tone deaf.

[jimmytwigs]

05:23 PM on 05/04/2012

In mormanism singing on key is considered a sin

[studioh!]

12:50 PM on 02/01/2012

he does better at preaching to the choir than singing to it...

[Versh]

11:58 AM on 02/01/2012

Sing it Mitt!

[Ugonna]

10:51 AM on 02/01/2012

honestly, I feel kind of sad for Mitt...

[FVMTX75]

10:56 AM on 02/01/2012

It's sad.....lame as you can get.....wonder what he was thinking? "I got to see also"? LMAO

[FVMTX75]

10:57 AM on 02/01/2012

sing also

[Tzima]

09:53 AM on 02/01/2012

This simply proves that Mitt the Flipper will do whatever it takes to get attention and your vote. The President sings, he tries to sing (well of course its obvious he may be tone death) if you're conservative hes conservative, if your liberal hes liberal, if you're Hispanic he wishes he was Hispanic, if you're unemployed he is unemployed too, if your broke...well I guess he does have his limits.

[msanonymous222]

09:09 AM on 02/01/2012

Oh gosh, the Romneybot was just overcome with emotion, wasn't he?

Here's the thing about Mittens. When he's angry, he speaks the same as when he's happy. When he's befuddled, he speaks the same as when he's passionate. When he thinks something is funny, he speaks the same as when he thinks something isn't.

Didn't this guy ever take Public Speaking 101? Or have a music class in elementary school? Or ANYTHING that would tell him that you modulate, alter, adapt to the listener, etc.? He's just kinda...there. He doesn't speak in a monotone. But he does speak like someone who is totally devoid of real passion for much of anything.

And he always looks like his face is getting ready to slide, but his hair is still in place.

[hubertandsusan]

02:58 AM on 02/01/2012

Geeze/// Let me come up with a song like Obama did, showing off my blue collar side in my faded Sergio Valenti jeans, my borrowed L.L. Bean oxford shirt ( oops! forgot to roll up the sleeves like a workin' man! Oh well ! ) that I borrowed from a campaign staffer in order to " Look like a midwest farmer "..... Ya' All can relate to me Cantchya ? And no that was not pitch perfect. My guess is that this terds only foray into singing is mouthing the words at his mormon church was getting his sticky fingers into the collection basket on Sunday mornings...when he gets around to attending , that is.

[venice6]

02:09 AM on 02/01/2012

" I remember when I would travel around this country with my dog strapped on the top of our car"

" America , the beautiful ... ... I am such a patriot , even though I destroy American companies and sell off their parts and outsource job to China "

" America ... America ... God, please Give your money to me... From every Dominos pizza,

Staples, Sports Authority, Clear Channel Communications ( where I kick off any radio talk

show host who doesn't love .... me and all the other corporations I own. Next , I will own the

White House if I keep singing this song. People will give me attention like they did to

President Obama.. "

[Tzima]

09:44 AM on 02/01/2012

lol lol lol love this post!!!

[TheBestPatriot]

11:04 PM on 01/31/2012

Why is there an ad before you can hear President Obama sing?

[studioh!]

12:52 PM on 02/01/2012

the piper must be paid.

[TheBestPatriot]

11:03 PM on 01/31/2012

What a fr/e ak.