[00:44.42]What is this land of America so many travel there
[00:47.61]I'm going now while I'm still young my darling meet me there
[00:51.21]Wish me luck my lovely I'll send for you when I can
[00:54.81]And we'll make our home in the American land
[01:02.00]Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees
[01:05.51]And children dear the sweets I hear are growing on the trees
[01:09.06]Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands
[01:12.51]If you make your home in the American land
[01:19.72]There's diamonds in the sidewalks there's gutters lined in song
[01:23.32]Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
[01:27.09]There's treasure for the taking for any hard working man
[01:30.43]Who will make his home in the American land
[01:51.75]I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
[01:55.24]I wandered to the valley of red hot steel and fire
[01:58.74]We made the steel that built
[02:00.57]The cities with the sweat of our two hands
[02:02.32]And I made my home in the American land
[02:09.40]There's diamonds in the sidewalk there's gutters lined in song
[02:12.97]Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
[02:16.49]There's treasure for the taking for any hard working man
[02:20.12]Who will make his home in the American land
[02:41.87]The McNicholas the Posalski's the Smiths Zerillis too
[02:44.99]The Blacks the Irish the Italians the Germans and the Jews
[02:48.46]The Puerto Ricans illegals the Asians Arabs miles from home
[02:52.21]Come across the water with a fire down below
[02:55.71]They died building the railroads worked to bones and skin
[02:59.21]They died in the fields and factories
[03:01.12]Names scattered in the wind
[03:02.88]They died to get here a hundred years ago they're dying now
[03:06.25]The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down
[03:10.06]There's diamonds in the sidewalk there's gutters lined in song
[03:13.50]Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
[03:17.09]There's treasure for the taking for any hard working man
[03:20.77]Who will make his home in the American land
[03:24.16]Who will make his home in the American land
[03:27.68]Who will make his home in the American land