America - Why I Love Her.....
recorded by John Wayne
You ask me why I love her,
give me time, I'll explain.
Have you seen a Kansas sunset
or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted down a bayou
down Louisiana way?
Have you watched the cold fog drifting
over San Francisco bay?
Have you heard a Bobwhite calling
in the Carolina pines?
Or heard the bellow of a diesel
in the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you
when you hear her waters roar?
Look with awe and wonder
at a Massachusetts shore --
Where men who braved a hard new world
first stepped on Plymouth Rock.
Do you think of them when you walk along
a New York city dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting
in the Rockies way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down
from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she
rushes to the sea?
Or bow your head at Gettysburg
in our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Teton?
Watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi
roll along Missouri shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan,
when on a winters day
her waters rage along the shore
in a thunderous display?
Does the word aloha make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
when you see the surf come roaring
in at Waimea reef?
From Alaska's gold to the Everglades,
from the Rio Grand to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast
the might of her domain.
You ask me why I love her,
I have a million reasons why --
My beautiful America, beneath
Gods wide, wide sky.
Copyright ©1973 DeVere Corporation (ASCAP),
Batjac Music Company (ASCAP)
Words & Music: Liebert, John Mitchum, Howard Barnes
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