There’s a song in the dust of a county road
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On the wind it comes to call,
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And it sings in the farms and the fac’try towns
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Where you think there’d be no song at all.
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And the words are the words that our fathers heard
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As they whistled down the years,
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And the name of the song is the name of the dream
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And it’s music to our ears.
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America, America, and the dream goes on !
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America, America, and the dream goes on !
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And the words that we read on the courthouse walls
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And the words that make us free
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And the more we remember the way we began
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The closer we get to the best we can be.
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Was there ever a time we forgot it’s worth
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All the struggles and the scars
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If we leave to the children a sky full of hope
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And a flag that’s filled with stars.
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America, America, and the dream goes on !
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Remember the voice of Jefferson
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And the sound of Thomas Paine,
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Lincoln sang at Gettysberg about America.
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Listen well to the wind and you can hear
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From Oregon to Maine,
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America, America !
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There’s a song in the dust of a country road
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It’s a song we must recall
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And it sings in the farms and th fac’try towns
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And where you think there’d be no song at all.
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And the words are the words that our fathers heard
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As they whistled down the years,
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And the name of the song is the name of the dream
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And it’s music to our ears.
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America, America, and the dream goes on !
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Think of Roosevelt and Kennedy
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And of Martin Luther King
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And the way they sang a song about America
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Listen well to the wind, its always there
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And it’s asking us to sing,
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America, America !
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Though the voices are changing,
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The song’s the same as it sings from sea to sea,
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And as long as the music is strong and clear
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We’ll know that tomorrow will always be free.
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America, and the dream goes on !
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America, and the dream goes on !
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America, America, America, America, and the dream goes on ! |