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Come and take a walk with me thru this green and growing landWalk thru the meadows and the mountains and the sandWalk thru the valleys and the rivers and the plainsWalk thru the sun and walk thru the rain
Here is a land full of power and gloryBeauty that words cannot recallOh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedomHer glory shall rest on us all (on us all)
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas tooVirginia and Alaska, from the old to the newTexas and Ohio and the California shoreTell me, who could ask for more?
Yet she’s only as rich as the poorest of her poorOnly as free as the padlocked prison doorOnly as strong as our love for this landOnly as tall as we stand
But our land is still troubled by men who have to hateThey twist away our freedom & they twist away our fateFear is their weapon and treason is their cryWe can stop them if we try
~ Phil Ochs, the Power and the Glory