Tonart: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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What is this land of America,
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so many travel there
I'm going now while I'm still young,
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my darling meet me there
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Wish me luck my lovely,
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I'll send for you when I can
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And we'll make our home in
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the American land
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Verse 2
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Over there all the woman wear silk
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and satin to their knees
And children dear, the sweets, I hear,
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are growing on the trees
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Gold comes rushing out the river
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straight into your hands
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If you make your home in the
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American land
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Verse 3
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There's diamonds in the sidewalks,
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there's gutters lined in song
Dear, I hear that beer flows through the
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faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking,
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for any hard working man
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Who will make his home in the American
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land
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I docked at Ellis Island in
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a city of light and spire
I wandered to the valley of
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red-hot steel steel and fire
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We made the steel that built the cities
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with the sweat of our two hands
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And I made my home in the
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American land
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Verse 5
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There's diamonds in the sidewalk,
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there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the
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faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking,
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for any hard working man
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Who will make his home in the
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American land
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
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The
McNicholas,
the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis too
The Blacks, the Irish, Italians,
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the Germans and the Jews
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The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians,
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Arabs miles from home
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Come across the water
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with a fire down below
Verse 7
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They died building the railroads,
worked to bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories,
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names scattered in the wind
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They died to get here a hundred years ago,
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they're dyin' now
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The hands that built the country
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were always trying to keep down
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There's
Verse 8
diamonds in the sidewalk,
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there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows
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through the faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking,
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for any hard working man
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Who will make his home in
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the American land
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Who will make his home in
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the American land
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Who will make his home in the American land
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteB F# E C#
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