America the Beautiful: "America America...etc" is always the same refrain. This was written by Katherine Lee Bates after she had been to Pikes Peak in Colorado. I forget who wrote the music... Samuel somebody, I think. Anyway, for those of us who loath the Star Speckled Bugger, our national anthem, I've heard that there's a group called something like "the Society to promote America the Beautiful"- wouldn't it be a nice anthem? Celebrating our natural resources, rather than the unsingable "bombs bursting in air"