In short, Americans know and love this song. The song has, at various times through history, even been championed as a replacement for our current national anthem. Some may have started their day by singing the song in their classroom along with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. “America the Beautiful ” is a song that many Americans grew up singing in elementary school. Even with advance warning of how the final scene of the episode would play out, I was not fully prepared for the jarring site of it and for the emotional upheaval it caused. ” Others had never heard the song and wondered why it was chosen. So many were upset by the use of “America the Beautiful.
I got a bit of a late start on the Season 4 premiere of Outlander, but I had a chance to read the reactions of fellow fans hours before I watched the episode. And in the instant that it took for that thought to register, the chaos began. The piano playing against the scene of tranquility at the riverside camp was the first clue that something was amiss. O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grainįor purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plainĪmerica, America, God shed His grace on theeĪnd crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea Nikki Gastineau shares why she applauds the choice to use the song. Closing the Outlander Season 4 premiere episode with “America the Beautiful” was bold.
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