Some have said down through history   If you last, it's a mystery   But I guess they don't know what they're talking about   From the mountains down to the sea   You've become such a habit with me   America, America      Well, I come from down around Tennessee   But the people in California   Are nice to me, America   It don't matter where I may roam   Tell you people that it's home sweet home   America, America      And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too   And the red man is right to expect a little from you   Promise and then follow through, America      All the men who fell on the plains   And lived through hardship and pain   America, America   And the men who could not fight   In a war that didn't seem right   You let them come home, America      And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too   And the red man is right to expect a little from you   Promise and then follow through, America      Well, I come from down around Tennessee   But the people in California   Are nice to me, America   And don't matter where I may roam   Tell you people that it's home sweet home   America, America, America, America      And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too   And the red man is right, to expect a little from you   Promise and then follow through, America      It's home sweet home, America   America, America