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What is America to me
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A name, a map, a flag I see
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A certain word, "Democracy"
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What is America to me
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The house I live in a plot of earth, a street,
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The grocer and the butcher, all the people that I meet
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The children in the playground, the faces that I see
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All races, and religions that's America to me
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The place I work in, the worker at my side
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The little town or city where my people lived and died
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The "howdy" and the handshake, the air of feeling free
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The right to speak my mind out that's America to me
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The things I see about me the big things and the small
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The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall
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The wedding and the churchyard, the laughter and the tears,
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The dream that's been a growin' for twohundred thirty years
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The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
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The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom,
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The church, the school, the club house, the million lights I see
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But especially the people that's America to me
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Especially the people that's America to me
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