We shall overcome the seeger sessions

Released: 25.april 2006

Live In Dublin

American Land

What is this land of America?

So many travel there

I'm going down 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 the women wear silk

and satin to their knees

And children near, the sweets

I hear are growin' on the trees

Gold comes rushing out the river

straight into your hands

If 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'll make his home in the American land

I docked at Ellis Island

in a city of light and spire

I wandered to the valley of red hot steel and fire

We made the steel that built the cities

from the sweat of our two hands

And I made my 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'll make his home in the American land

The McNichols, the Molsowskis,

the Smiths, the Rilleys too

The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians,

the Germans and the Jews

The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians,

Arabs miles from home

Come across the water with a fire down below

They died building the railroads,

worked their 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're dying now

The hands that built the country

we're all trying to keep 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'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