Bruce Springsteen - American Land Chords & Tabs

AMERICAN LAND

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What is this land of America, so many travel there
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I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there
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Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
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And we'll make our home in the American land

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Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees
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And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees
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Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands
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If you make your home in the American land

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There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
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Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
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Who’ll make his home in the American land

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I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
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I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire
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We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands
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And made our home in the American land
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There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
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Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
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Who will make his home in the American land

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McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, the Zurrilis too
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The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews
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Come across the water a 1000 miles from home
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with nothing in their bellies and a fire down below



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They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin
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They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
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They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now
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The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down

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There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
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Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
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Who will make his home in the American land (3 times)


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