| They left the old world for the new
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| And sailed across the sea
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| Driven from their homeland
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| To a land of liberty
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| Driven by the tyrant’s hand
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| From Erin’s Isle so green
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| They crossed the western ocean
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| To find life’s elusive dreams
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| Into the bowels of the cities and the towns
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| There the Irish made their way
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| Across the new horizons
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| Far away from the bitter sea
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| They left their homes in Ireland
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| No more of the land to see
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| And made their way all over the land
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| And found a home all over the land
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| All over the land
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| Colorado, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California,
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| North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Oregon,
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| Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, Maine
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| All over, all over
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| Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Alaska,
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| Utah, Iowa, Ottawa, Omaha, Idaho, New Mexico
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| All over, all over
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| Minnesota, Arizona, Carolina North and South,
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| Nevada, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Missouri
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| All over, all over
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| Come on everybody, thank God for America
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| Thank God for America
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| For your country and your fertile shores
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| Thank God for America
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| For we love this land forever more
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| Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see
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| We’re all part of America
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| It’s a land that’s part of you and me
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| Thank God for America
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| They left the old world for the new
|
| And sailed across the sea
|
| Driven from their homeland
|
| To a land of liberty
|
| Driven by the tyrant’s hand
|
| From Erin’s Isle so green
|
| They crossed the western ocean
|
| To find life’s elusive dream
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| Over the hills and the valleys and the plains
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| The Irish brought the railways there
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| Blazing the trails of America
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| Far away from the bitter sea
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| From the gold mines to the coal mines
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| Up and down the cattle trails
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| They made their way all over the land
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| And found a home all over the land
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| All over the land
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| Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
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| New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
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| Nova Scotia, Tennessee, and Kentucky
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| All over, all over
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| Buffalo to Boston, Washington, Wyoming,
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| Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Delaware,
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| Don’t forget Connecticut
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| All over, all over
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| Colorado and Chicago, Ohio, Illinois,
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| Maryland, Newfoundland, Barrow, and Rhode Island
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| All over, all over
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| Thank God for America
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| For your country and your fertile shores
|
| Thank God for America
|
| For we love this land forever more
|
| Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see
|
| We’re all part of America
|
| It’s a land that’s part of you and me
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| Thank God for America |