American Land

What is this land America, so many travel there

I'm goin' now while I'm still young, my darlin', 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 women wear silk and satin to their knees

And children there are the sweets, I hear, growin' on the trees

Gold comes rushin' out the rivers, straight into your hands

When you make your home in the American Land

There's diamonds in the sidewalk

The gutters lined in song

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

There's treasure for the takin' for any hard workin' man

Who'll make his home in the American Land

I docked at Ellis Island in the 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

We made our home in the American Land

There's diamonds in the sidewalk

And the gutters lined in song

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

There's treasure for the takin' for any hard workin' man

Who'll make his home in the American Land

The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smith's, Zerilli's too

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

They come across the water, a thousand miles from home

With nothin' in their bellies but the fire down below

They died buildin' the railroads, they 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 still dyin' now

The hands that built the country were always trying to keep down

There's diamonds in the sidewalk

The gutters lined in song

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

There's treasure for the takin' for any hard workin' 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