What is this land of 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 river straight into your hands   If you make your home in the American land*      There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there'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 spire   I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire   We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands   And I made my home in the American land      There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there'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, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews   The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home   Come across the water with a 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 dyin' now   The hands that built the country were all trying to keep down      There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there'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   Who will make his home in the American land   Who will make his home in the American land