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"WHY I LOVE HER"
(America)
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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.
~ John Mitchum ~
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