Tonart: A major
Verse 1
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Be
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side the gutter in a Bangkok street
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Sits a naked child,
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grateful for something to eat
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From America
She licks her fingers and
she wipes her face
She stares in silence
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and dreams of a distant place
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Called America, America,
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symbol of hope and goodwill.
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Is it only a vision she sees,
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or are you for real?
Across the ocean in a Baghdad crowd
Stands an angry boy shouting
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a curse out loud
At America
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His eyes are burning
with a fiery hate
He's so determined that
death be the certain fate
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of that state called America.
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land of the strong and the free.
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When you look in his eyes,
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tell me what will your answer be?
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Outside the city, on a Haitian beach
They come by thousands,
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hoping somehow to reach America
The dark sea churns
beneath the morning heat
As one by one they board
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And sail to meet America
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America, keeper of liberty's flame
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When they land on your shore
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Will you really be glad that they
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came?
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Back in Ohio, in a Sunday school
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A class of children are
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reading the Golden
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In America, they eat their cookies
and they laugh and play
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Just before they leave,
they
Verse 2
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their heads to pray
For America
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Verse 3
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For America
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Verse 4
For America
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You
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