Key: F major•
Verse 1
Bangkok street
Sits a naked child,
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grateful for something to eat
She licks her fingers,
she wipes her face,
Stares in silence and dreams
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of a distant
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called
Csus4
C
America.
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America, symbol of hope and goodwill.
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Is it only a vision she sees, or
Across the ocean in a
Tehran crowd
Stands an angry boy shouting
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a curse out loud
That
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America
His eyes are burning with a fiery hate
So determined that death
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America, land of the strong and the free
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When you look in his eyes tell me what will
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your answer be
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C
Back in
Ohio
In a
Sunday school,
a class of children are reading
The
Golden
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Rule in
They eat their cookies,
they laugh and play.
Just before they leave,
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they bow their heads and pray for
We the people of the
United
States of
America,
in order to preserve a more perfect union,
We, the believers and the one
God, in order to ensure our destiny as a people,
pledge
ourselves to pray, as if our national life depends on it,
as indeed it does, to pray
every day for
America.
you
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ChordsC Bb F Csus4 Bbm
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