AMERICAN LAND

What is this land of America so many travel there 
I’m going there while I’m still young 
My darlin’ meet me there 
Wish me luck my lovely 
I’ll send freedom when I can 
And we’ll make our home in the American land 

Over there the women wear silk and satin to their knees 
And children near the sweets I hear are growin’ out in the trees 
Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands 
And you make your home in the American land 

There’s diamonds in the sidewalks 
There’s gutters lined in song 
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long 
There’s treasure for the takin’ for any hard working man 
Who make his home in the American land 

I adopted Ellis Island in the city lights spire 
I wandered to the valley of red hot steel and fire 
We made the steel that built the streets 
With the sweat of our two hands 
I gave my home to the American land 

There’s diamonds in the sidewalks 
There’s gutters lined in song 
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long 
There’s treasure for the takin’ for any hard working man 
Who make his home in the American land 

The blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews 
The Asians, the Arabs miles from home 
come across the water with the fire down below 

They died building the railroads 
Worked them bones and skin 
They died in the fields and factories 
They’ve scattered in the wind 
They died to get here a hundred years ago 
They tell em now the hands that built the country roads trying to keep it down 

There’s diamonds in the sidewalks 
There’s gutters lined in song 
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long 
There’s treasure for the takin’ for any hard working man 
Who make his home in the American land 

Who make his home in the American land 
Who make his home in the American land

 


Song Informationen:
Bei der "Seeger Session Tour" des öfteren gespielt und auf "Live in Dublin" veröffentlicht. Ausserdem auf "Wrecking Ball" (2012) enthalten.