Oh my love, it's a long way we've come From the freckled hills to the steel glass canyons From the stony fields, to hanging steel from the sky From digging in our pockets for a reason not to say goodbye These are the hands that built America (Russian, Sioux, Dutch, Hindu) Oh, oh oh, America (Polish, Irish, German, Italian) Last saw your face in a watercolour sky As sea birds argue, a long goodbye I took your kiss, on the spray of the Newline Star You gotta live with your dreams, don't make them so hard And these are the hands, that built America (The Irish, the Blacks, the Chinese, the Jews) Ah, ah ah, America / Hand (Korean, Hispanic, Muslim, Indian) Of all of the promises, is this one we could keep Of all of the dreams, is this one still out of reach Out ta outa reeeach (Dream-oh-yeah) (Oh oh-dream, oh love) It's early fall, there's a cloud on the New York skyline Innocence, dragged across a yellow line These are the hands that built America These are the hands that built America Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah America