4th_of_July_Parade

This Land is Your Land

Woody Guthrie 

             

Chorus

This Land is your land, this land is my land

From California to the New York Island

From the Redwood forests to the gulf stream waters

This land was made for you and me

 

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway

I saw below me those golden valleys

This land was made for you and me

(Chorus)

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts

And all around me a voice was sounding

This land was made for you and me 

(Chorus)

As the sun was shining, and I was strolling

And the wheat fields waving, and the dust clouds rolling

A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting

This land was made for you and me

(Chorus)

As I was walkin'-  I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no Immigration
But on the other side...it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

(Chorus)

Nobody living can ever stop me, 

As I go walking my freedom highway; 

Nobody living can ever make me turn back 

This land was made for you and me. 

(Chorus)

Took the hearts of women, to get us moving

From San Francisco to Washington

We started marchin’, and we ain’t lookin’ back

Cause this land was made for you and me

(Chorus)

 

 

If I Had a Hammer

Pete Seeger & Lee Hays

 

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning

I'd hammer in the evening, All over this land

I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning

I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land

 

If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning, I'd ring it in the evening

All over this land

I'd ring out danger, I'd ring out a warning

I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land

 

If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning, I'd sing it in the evening

All over this land

I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out a warning

I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land

 

Well I got a hammer, And I got a bell, and I got a song to sing

All over this land

It's the hammer of Justice, It's the bell of Freedom

It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land  

 

 

Blowin’ in the Wind

Bob Dylan

 

How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned

 

Chorus

The answer my friend, is blowin in the wind.

The answer is blowin in the wind.

 

How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?

How many years can some people exist, before they're allowed to be free?

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

(Chorus)

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

How many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry?

How many deaths will it take 'till he knows, that too many people have died?

(Chorus)

 

 

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver

 

Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze

 

Chorus

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

 

All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

(Chorus)

I hear her voice in the mornin' hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road, I get a feelin'
That I should've been home yesterday, yesterday

(Chorus)

 

 

Times Are a Changin’

Bob Dylan

 

Come gather ’round people, Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin’

Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin’

 

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again

And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin

And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’

For the loser now will be later to win,

For the times they are a-changin’

 

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’

It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin’

 

Come mothers and fathers all over the land

And don’t criticize what you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin’

Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’

 

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

As the present now will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin’

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’

 

 

The Preamble

Schoolhouse Rock Live

 

Hey, do you know about the U.S.A.?
Do you know about the government?
Can you tell me about the Constitution?
Hey, learn about the U.S.A.

 

In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers did agree
To write a list of principles
For keeping people free.

 

The U.S.A. was just starting out
A whole brand-new country
And so our people spelled it out
The things that we should be

 

And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution,

and it's been helping us run our country ever since then.

The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble

and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.

 

We the people
In order to form a more perfect union
Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

 

In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers all sat down
And wrote a list of principles
That's known the world around

The U.S.A. was just starting out
A whole brand-new country
And so our people spelled it out
They wanted a land of liberty

And the Preamble goes like this:

 

We the people
In order to form a more perfect union
Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

For the United States of America . . .

 

 

Somos El Barco

Lorre Wyatt

 

Chorus

Somos el Barco, Somos el Mar

Yo na ve-go en ti,         Tu na ve-gas en mi

We are the boat.     We are the Sea.

I sail in you.    You sail in me.

              

The stream sings it to the river, the river sings it to the sea.

The sea sings it to the boat, that carries you and me.

(Chorus)

The boat we are sailing on, was built by many hands,

And the sea we are sailing on, it touches every land.

(Chorus)

So with our hopes, we set the sails, and face the winds once more.

And with our hearts, we chart the waters, never sailed before.

(Chorus)

 

Down by the Riverside 
Traditional (Revised Buzz Merrick Aug 2019)

 

 

I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield

Down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside

I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield

Down by the riverside, and study war no more

 

I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more    

Ain't gonna study war no more,       

I ain't gonna study war no more

I ain't gonna study war no more, ain't gonna study war no more

 

I’m gonna take down that border wall

Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside

And turn that wall into a door

Down by the riverside, and study war no more

 

I'm gonna walk with that Prince of Peace

Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside

And bear my soul on bended knee

Down by the riverside, and study war no more

 

 

America the Beautiful

revised Jesse Palidosfky and John Morris

 

O beautiful for spacious skies,

for amber waves of grain

For purple mountain’s majesties,

above thy fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed much grace on thee

So spread the Love sent from above,

from sea to shining sea!

 

O beautiful thy immigrants,

Who hail from every land

Their hope and heart & diligence,

Like gifts from God’s own hand!

America! America!

Thy grace shall yet remain

To greet the poor who reach thy shore,

With open arms again!

 

O beautiful O Mother earth,

All nestle in your breast

And as we sing with Love & Joy

All nations will be blessed

America! America!

Alone cannot abide

God give thee pause to mend thy flaws

With truth our only guide

 

O beautiful thy working folk,

Built cities, tilled thy soil

Proud Africans, in bloodied chains

Our wealth built from their toil

America! America!

God shed much grace on thee

So spread the love, sent from above

from sea to shining sea!

 

Ring Sisterhood, Ring Brotherhood

From Sea to Shining Sea!