> > "WHY I LOVE HER" > > (America) > > > > You ask me Why I Love Her? > > Well, give me time and I'll explain. > > Have you seen a Kansas sunset > > Or an Arizona rain? > > Have you drifted on a bayou > > Down Louisiana way? > > Have you watched a cold fog drifting > > Over San Francisco Bay? > > Have you heard a bobwhite calling > > In the Carolina pines, > > Or heard the bellow of a diesel > > At the Appalachia mines? > > Does the call of Niagara thrill you > > When you hear her waters roar? > > Do you look with awe and wonder > > At her Massachusetts shore, > > Where men who braved a hard new world > > First 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 come 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 > > At our struggle to be free? > > Have you seen the mighty Tetons? > > Have you watched an eagle soar? > > Have you seen the Mississippi > > Roll along Missouri's shore? > > Have you felt a chill at Michigan > > When on a winter's 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 > > Come roaring in at Waimea Reef? > > From Alaska's cold 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.