American Child

1.American Child (Phil Vassar) sözleri

Phil Vassar tarafından albümünde söylenen American Child adlı şarkının sözleri.

I was ten,
I was thin,
I was playing first base
with a secondhand glove and dirt on my face
In nowhere, Virginia
Who'd ever figure that kid in the yard would go very far
It was 419 Lakewood , had no silverspoons
Just an old beat up upright that played out of tune
Now I'm singin' and living the life that I love
And when I count my blessings I thank God I was
An American child

An American child
'Cause dreams can grow wild
Born inside an American child

Seven pounds, three ounces, she's got my nose
And she's into my heart as deep as it goes
With a promise that's more than just someone's last name
Anyone's equal, in late August came
An American child

An American child
'Cause dreams can grow wild
Born inside an American child

My grandfather would have been eighty today
But in '45 he fell down beside an American child

An American child
Oh, an American child
'Cause dreams can grow wild born inside an American child
An American child

2.American Child (John Denver) sözleri

John Denver tarafından albümünde söylenen American Child adlı şarkının sözleri.

Going up to Alaska, up to the land of the midnight sun,
Where the whale and polar bear run over the icy blue sea.
Going up to Alaska, up to the north and the pioneer life,
Where courage and strength still survive and a man can be free.

American child, does the call of the wild ever sing through the mist of your dreams?
Does it fly with the wind when you waken again?
When it's gone do you know what it means?

Can you picture the time when a man
Had to find his own way through an unbroken land?
Before the machine changed the blue and the green
To something you can't understand?

American child there's a burning inside you that calls you away through the cold.
To come back again to all that you've been,
Can't you see that it's time to come home?
To the flowers and the trees and the rivers and the seas
And the earth who's the mother of all?
A promise once made will it shine, will it fade, will we rise with the vision or fall?

Going up to Alaska, up to the land of the midnight sun,
Where the whale and polar bear run over the icy blue sea.
Going up to Alaska, up to the north and the pioneer life
Where courage and strength still survive and a man can be free, men can be free.

Going up to Alaska, going up to Alaska, going up to Alaska.