American Land (Live in Dublin)

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Whoa!

What is this land 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 the women wear silk and satin to their knees

Children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees

Gold comes rushing out the rivers straight into your hands

If you make your 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'll make his home in the American land

Whoa!

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

Wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire

Made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands

We made our 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'll make his home in the American land

The McNichols, the Posalskis, the Smiths, Zerillis too

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

Come across the water a thousand miles from home

With nothing in their bellies but the fire down below

They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin

Died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind

Died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dying now

The hands that built the country we're always 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'll make his home in the American land

Who'll make his home in the American land

Who'll make his home in the American land

Come on!

Whoa!

(Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo hoo-hoo)

(Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo hoo-hoo)

(Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo-hoooo hoooo)