What is A - merica to me? A name, a map, or a flag I see
A certain word: De - mocra - cy. What is A - merica to me?
1. The House I Live in, a plot of earth, the street
2. The place I work in, the worker by my side
The grocer and the butcher, and the people that I meet
The little town or city where my people lived and died
The children in the playground, the faces that I see
The howdy and the handshake, the air of feelin' free
All races and religions, that's A - merica to me.
The right to speak my mind out, that's A - merica to me.
The things I see a - bout me, the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand, or the house a mile tall
The wedding in the churchyard, the laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a-growin' for two hundred and fifty years
The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city or a garden all in bloom
The church, the school, the clubhouse, the million lights I see
But e - specially the people, that's A - merica to me.