Story Behind The Song
Written on the first anniversary of Sept. 11.
I watched both WorldTrade Towers come down with my own eyes. I watched those people die.On the anniversary I wanted to put my feelings about it into a song.
Song Description
Patriotic ballad
| Song Length |
2:28 |
Genre |
Pop - General |
| Tempo |
Very Slow (Under 70) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Subject |
Encouragement |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
AMERI-CAN-DO
From the morning dew on the Boston Common
To a starry night over a Texas town
Through a peaceful sunset at Pacifica
There's a common thread that can be found
AMERICA
CRADLE ME WITH YOUR LIBERTY
AMERICAN
SPEAK TO THE HEART OF YOU AND ME
AMERIWON'T
RUN FROM WHAT IT HAS TO DO
AMERIWILL.....AMERI-CAN-DO
On the streets of the cities of 9/11
Where every single hero cries
To the tallest timber of the far northwest
ther's a spirit that never dies
AMERICA
CRADLE ME IN YOUR LIBERTY
AMERICAN
SPEAK FOR THE HEART OF YOU AND ME
AMERIWON'T
RUN FROM WHAT IT HAS TO DO
AMERIWILL....AMERI-CAN-DO
when a nation is given no choice
fifty states will speak with one voice
AMERICA
CRADLE ME IN YOUR LIBERTY
AMERICAN
SPEAK FOR THE HEART OF YOU AND ME
AMERIWON'T
RUN FROM WHAT IT HAS TO DO
AMERIWILL....AMERI-CAN-DO
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Alternate Verses
It runs along the cornfields of the heartland
lifting up into a flat Dakota sky
Riding along the ridges of the Sierras
And down the mountainside
In a sunny Talahasse orange grove
To an icy cold Chicago wind
We are all bound up together
Through the thickest and the thin
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Words & Music: James Jolis
C. 2002