American Land Lyrics

What is this land of 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 all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees*
And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing 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 that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will 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 with the sweat of our two hands
And I made my 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 will make his home in the American land

The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis 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 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 dyin' now
The hands that built the country we're all 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 will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land

Bruce Springsteen - Live In Dublin

Jun 2007

1. Atlantic City (Live in Dublin)
2. Old Dan Tucker (Live in Dublin)
3. Eyes On The Prize (Live in Dublin)
4. Jesse James (Live in Dublin)
5. Further On (Up The Road) (Live in Dublin)
6. O Mary Don't You Weep (Live In Dublin)
7. Erie Canal (Live In Dublin)
8. If I Should Fall Behind (Live In Dublin)
9. My Oklahoma Home (Live In Dublin)
10. Highway Patrolman (Live In Dublin)
11. Mrs. McGrath (Live In Dublin)
12. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Bruce Springsteen Version Live In Dublin)
13. Jacob's Ladder (Live In Dublin)
14. Long Time Comin' (Live In Dublin)
15. Open All Night (Live In Dublin)
16. Pay Me My Money Down (Live In Dublin)
17. Growin' Up (Live In Dublin)
18. When The Saints Go Marching In (Live In Dublin)
19. This Little Light Of Mine (Live In Dublin)
20. American Land (Live In Dublin)
21. Blinded By The Light (Live In Dublin)
22. Love Of The Common People (Live In Dublin)
23. We Shall Overcome (Live In Dublin)