AMERICAN LAND G C G What is this land of America, so many travel there G C D I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there G C D Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can G C D G G / C / D / G And we'll make our home in the American land G C G Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees G D And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees G D Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands G C D G G / C / D / G If you make your home in the American land G C G There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song G D Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long G D There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man G C D G G / C / D / G Who’ll make his home in the American land G C G G D G D G / C / D / G G C G I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire G D I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire G D We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands G C D G G / C / D / G And made our home in the American land G C G There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song G D Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long G D There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man G C D G G / C / D / G Who will make his home in the American land C G C C D C G G / C / D / G G C G McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, the Zurrilis too G D The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews G D Come across the water a 1000 miles from home G C D G with nothing in their bellies and a fire down below G C G They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin G D They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind G D They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now G C D G The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down G C G There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song G D Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long G D There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man G C D G Who will make his home in the American land (3 times) D G D D A D A D / G / A / D C G C C D C G G / C / D / G (3 times)
