God Bless America God Bless America "God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song. "God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer (intro lyrics "as we raise our voices, in a solemn prayer") for God's blessing and peace for the nation ("...stand beside her and guide her through the night..."). Irving Berlin wrote the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at
God Bless America (film) reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave a 67% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 107 reviews; its consensus read: "A darkly comic polemic on modern culture, "God Bless America" is uneven and somewhat this but the ideas behind this revenge fulfilment journey has primal appeal." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave an average score of 56 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars out 4, and wrote: "this is a