The song The Immigrant is performed by Neil Sedaka in the album named Laughter in the Rain: Best of in the year 1994 .
Harbors open their doors to the young searching foreigner
Come to live in the light of the big L of liberty
Plains and open skies bill boards would advertise
Was it anything like that when you arrived?
Dream boats carried the future to the heart of America
People were waiting in line for a place by the river
It was time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room
That people could come from everywhere
Now he arrives with hopes and his heart set on miracles
Come to marry his fortune with a hand full of promises
To find they've closed the door they don't want him anymore
There isn't anymore to go around
Turning away he remembers he once heard a legend
That spoke of a mystical magical land called America
It was time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room
That people could come from everywhere
It was time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room
That people could come from everywhere
Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the Rain: Best of
Laughter in the Rain: Best of
- Laughter in the Rain
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- That's When the Music Takes Me
- The Immigrant
- The Hungry Years
- The Queen of 1964
- Rock & Roll Wedding Day
- Bad Blood
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- #1 With a Heartache
- Lonely Night (Angel Face)
- Standing on the Inside
- Love in the Shadows
- The Other Side of Me
- Steppin' Out
- You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine
- Little Brother
- Solitaire
- Should've Never Let You Go
- Our Last Song Together