Happy Independence Day Dragonmount!

America, Why I Love Her.

 

http://www.mamarocks.com/why_i_love_her.htm

 

AMERICA, WHY I LOVE HER

 

Narrated by John Wayne

 

You ask me Why I Love Her?

Well, give me time and I'll explain.

Have you seen a Kansas sunset

Or an Arizona rain?

Have you drifted on a bayou

Down Louisiana way?

Have you watched a cold fog drifting

Over San Francisco Bay?

Have you heard a bobwhite calling

In the Carolina pines,

 

Or heard the bellow of a diesel

At the Appalachia mines?

Does the call of Niagara thrill you

When you hear her waters roar?

Do you look with awe and wonder

At her Massachusetts shore,

Where men who braved a hard new world

First stepped on Plymouth's rock?

And do you think of them when you stroll

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

At our struggle to be free?

Have you seen the mighty Tetons?

Have you watched an eagle soar?

Have you seen the Mississippi

Roll along Missouri's shore?

 

Have you felt a chill at Michigan

When on a winter's day

Her waters rage along the shore

In 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 cold to the Everglades,

From the Rio Grande to Maine,

My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast

At the might of her domain.

You ask me Why I Love Her?

I've a million reasons why:

My Beautiful America,

Beneath God's wide, wide sky.

 

written by ~ John Mitchum ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy 4th y'all  ;D