[HANASHIR:12179] A beautiful new verse to God Bless America for 9/11

[Laura Ferguson <allenderl...>]

I just got back from a very moving and truly interfaith 9/11 memorial at 
Ebenezer Baptist Church.  We sang God Bless America adding the new verse 
listed last below, and I felt I had to share it because I was so moved by 
the whole experience and by this verse especially.

Laura Ferguson

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God Bless America
Composed Irving Berlin
New verse by Rev. Amy Greene, Oakhurst Baptist Church, Decatur, GA

Solo
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea.
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:

Congregation
God Bless America.
Land that I love
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
 From the mountains, to the prairies ,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home

God bless the world we love, stranger and friend;
Go before us, restore us with a hope that despair cannot end.
Every people, every nation, mighty ocean heaven's dawn.
God, bless the world we love, our only home.
God, bless the world you love, our only home.

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