It barely cracked the R&B chart in 1972. Now it plays at every Super Bowl.
Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, wrote the lyrics as a poem in 1893 after a train trip to Colorado Springs. The view from atop Pikes Peak gave her the line "purple ...
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