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American Land





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What is this land of America? So many travel there

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I'm going down while I'm still young, my darlin' meet me there



Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can

           G        C            D        G

And we'll make our home in the American land  | G / C /|D / G /|







G                                   D               G

Over there the women wear silk and satin to their knees

                                                         D

And children near, the sweets I hear are growin' on the trees



Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands

        G        C              D      G

If you make your home in the American land   | G / C /|D / G /|





         G                                  D                G

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song

                                                        D

Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long



There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man

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Who'll make his home in the American land    | G / C /|D / G /|







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   G                           D                  G

I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire

                                               D

I wandered to the valley of red hot steel and fire



We made the steel that built the cities from the sweat of our two hands

       G       C            D       G

And I made my home in the American land     | G / C /|D / G /|   





         G                                  D                G

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song

                                                       D

Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long



There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man

        G         C           D       G

Who'll make his home in the American land   | G / C /|D / G /| 





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The McNichols, the Molsowskis, the Smiths, the Rilleys too

                                                          D

The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews



The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home

G                C            D         G

Come across the water with a fire down below





      G                             D                     G

They died building the railroads, worked their bones and skin

                                                                 D

They died in the fields and factories, they've scattered in the wind



They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dying now

     G                    C                  D             G

The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down





         G                                  D                G   

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song

                                                       D

Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long



There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man

        G        C           D         G

Who'll make his home in the American land

        G        C           D         G

Who'll make his home in the American land

        G        C           D         G

Who'll make his home in the American land





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