Lyrics

[Verse 1] What is this land America? So many travel there I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling, meet me there Wish me luck, my lovely, I'll send for you when I can And we'll make our home in the American land Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees And, children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees Gold comes rushing out the rivers straight into your hands When you make your home in the American Land [Chorus] There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutter's lined in song Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There's treasure for the taking, for any hard-working man Who will make his home in the American Land Whoo! Whoo! [Verse 2] I docked at Ellis Island in the city of light and spire I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands And we made our home in the American Land [Chorus] Whoo! There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutter's lined in song Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There's treasure for the taking, for any hard-working man Who will make his home in the American Land Whooo! Whoo-hoo! Hoo! Hoo! [Verse 3] The McNicholases, the Posalskis, the Smiths, Zerillis, too The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews They come across the water a thousand miles from home With nothing in their bellies but the fire down below They died building the railroads, they worked to bones and skin They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're still dying now The hands that built the country we're always trying to keep down [Chorus] There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutter's lined in song Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There's treasure for the taking, for any hard-working man Who will make his home in the American Land Who will make his home in the American Land Who will make his home in the American Land Whoo! [Instrumental outro]