Verse 1
G
What is America to me?
D
G
A name, a map, the flag I see,
D
G
Am
A certain word, democracy.
D
What is America to me?
G
The house I live in,
C
D
a plot of earth, a street
G
D
G
The grocer and the butcher
Bb
and the people that I meet
G
D
G
The children in the playground,
D
Em
the faces that I see
C
G
All races, all religions,
D
G
that's America to me.
C
D
G
The place I work in, the worker at my side,
D
the little town or city
G
Bb
G
where my people lived and died,
D
G
the howdy and the handshake,
D
Em
the air of feeling free,
C
D
G
the right to speak my mind out,
D
G
that's America to me.
C
B
G
The words of Ole Blinken,
C
B
of Jefferson and Payne,
G
C
of Washington and Douglas,
G
C
and the task that still remains.
Am
Em
The little bridge at Concord,
B
where freedom's fight began.
Em
A
D
Of Gettysburg, and Midway,
A
D
and the story of Bataan
C
G
C
The town I live in, the street,
D
G
the house, the room
D
G
The pavement of the city,
C
Bb
G
or a garden all in bloom
D
G
The church, the school, the clubhouse,
D
Em
the million lights I see
C
G
But es pecially the people,
D
Em
that's America to me.
C
G
But especially the people,
D
C
D
C
G
Am
Dsus4
that's America to me.
The House That I Live In
Eric Bibb, Leon Bibb
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