American Land

[jones jones]

fourth of july is coming so this is for all my great american buddies on FG ...

American Land by Bruce Springsteen.

What is this land of America, so many travel there

I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there

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

And we'll make our home in the American land

Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees

And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees

Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands

If you make your home in the American land

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

Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long

There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man

Who will make his home in the American land

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

I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire

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

And I made my home in the American land

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

Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long

There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man

Who will make his home in the American land

The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis too

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

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

Come across the water with a fire down below

They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin

They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind

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

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

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

Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long

There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man

Who will make his home in the American land

Who will make his home in the American land

Who will make his home in the American land

[along-for-the-ride]

Thanks for sharing. JJ.

The "Boss" himself......

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[jones jones]

along-for-the-ride;904910 wrote: Thanks for sharing. JJ.

The "Boss" himself......




my pleasure! watched mtv just now and they had ten of his videos on one after another! every one brilliant!

[Kathy Ellen]

Thank you for this thread JJ:-4 That was so nice of you.

It's nice from someone from another country to post something positive about America. I appreciate it:-6

[Hope6]

Kathy Ellen;904958 wrote: Thank you for this thread JJ:-4 That was so nice of you.

It's nice from someone from another country to post something positive about America. I appreciate it:-6




My thoughts exactly Kathy! :-6



Thank you Jj! :-4

[jones jones]

this ones for hope and kath ... as well as evey other american who reads it! :-4



AMERICA, WHY I LOVE HER

You ask me Why I Love Her?

Well, give me time and I'll explain.

Have you seen a Kansas sunset

Or an Arizona rain?

Have you drifted on a bayou

Down Louisiana way?

Have you watched a cold fog drifting

Over San Francisco Bay?

Have you heard a bobwhite calling

In the Carolina pines,

Or heard the bellow of a diesel

At the Appalachia mines?

Does the call of Niagara thrill you

When you hear her waters roar?

Do you look with awe and wonder

At her Massachusetts shore,

Where men who braved a hard new world

First stepped on Plymouth's rock?

And do you think of them when you stroll

Along a New York City dock?

Have you seen a snowflake drifting

In the Rockies, way up high?

Have you seen the sun come blazing down

From a bright Nevada sky?

Do you hail to the Columbia

As she rushes to the sea,

Or bow your head at Gettysburg

At our struggle to be free?

Have you seen the mighty Tetons?

Have you watched an eagle soar?

Have you seen the Mississippi

Roll along Missouri's shore?



Have you felt a chill at Michigan

When on a winter's day

Her waters rage along the shore

In thunderous display?

Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?

Do you stare in disbelief

When you see the surf

Come roaring in at Waimea Reef?

From Alaska's cold to the Everglades,

From the Rio Grande to Maine,

My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast

At the might of her domain.

You ask me Why I Love Her?

I've a million reasons why:

My Beautiful America,

Beneath God's wide, wide sky.

~ John Mitchum ~

[Hope6]

awwwwww Jj! that is beautiful!

Thank you! :-4:-4

[sunny104]

very cool, jj! :-6:yh_flag