What is America to me a name, a map, or a flag
I see acertain word, democracy
What is America to me
The house I live in a plot of earth, the street
The grocer and the butcher or the people that I meet
The children in the playground the faces that I see
All races and religions that's America to me
The place I work in the worker by my side
The little town the city where my people lived and died
The howdy and the handshake the air a feeling free
The right to speak your mind out that's America to me
The things I see about me the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand or the house a mile tall
The wedding and the churchyard the laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a growing for more than two hundred years
The town I live in the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city or a garden all in bloom
The church the school the club house the millions lights I see
Especially the people that's America to me
The house I live in a plot of earth, the street
The grocer and the butcher or the people that I meet
The children in the playground the faces that I see
All races and religions that's America to me
The place I work in the worker by my side
The little town the city where my people lived and died
The howdy and the handshake the air a feeling free
The right to speak your mind out that's America to me
The things I see about me the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand or the house a mile tall
The wedding and the churchyard the laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a growing for more than two hundred years
The town I live in the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city or a garden all in bloom
The church the school the club house the millions lights I see
Especially the people that's America to me