American Land

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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

There’s diamonds in the sidewalk the’s gutters 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

I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spires
She met me in the valley of red-hot steel and fire
We made the steel that built the cities with our sweat and two hands
And we made our home in the American Land

There’s diamonds in the sidewalk the’s gutters 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

The McNicholas, the Posalski’s, the Smiths, Zerillis, too
The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews
Come across the water a thousand miles from home
With nothin in their bellies but the fire down below

They died building the railroads 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 dyin now
The hands that built the country were always trying to keep down

There’s diamonds in the sidewalk the gutters 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

© Bruce Springsteen

4 tanker om “American Land”

  1. Koncerten var rigtig vellykket, men et nøk mindre intens, medrivende og ‘klub’ agtig, end sidste års i parken. Stemningen på scenen var overskudsagtig og som til ‘The National’ var violinen atter et kraftfuldt element.

    Højdepunkterne var spredt gavmildt henover aftenen, og var for mig ‘The River’, ‘No Surrender’, ‘The Promised Land’ og et formidabelt ekstra sæt.

    Desuden blev jeg revet med af Bossens formidable mundharmonikaspil, hvilket han gavmildt demonstrerede.

    Publikum var derimod en skuffelse. En konstant småpludren under numrene og ringen til vennerne derhjemme ‘kan I høre hvor jeg står nu ??’. Øv.

  2. Sætlisten fra Forum.

    Radio Nowhere
    No Surrender
    Lonesome Day
    Gypsy Biker
    Magic
    Reason To Believe
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town
    She’s The One
    Livin’ In The Future
    The Promised Land
    I’ll Work For Your Love
    The River (Tour Premiere)
    Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
    Devil’s Arcade
    The Rising
    Last To Die
    Long Walk Home
    Badlands

    Girls In Their Summer Clothes
    Kitty’s Back
    Born To Run
    Dancing In The Dark
    American Land

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