Lyrics The House I Live In.lrc Frank Sinatra
[id: pshjmics]
[ar: Frank Sinatra]
[al: A Man and His Music]
[ti: The House I Live In]
[length: 04:42]
[00:00.94]I’m just one of hundreds of millions of people who carry in our hearts
[00:04.66]A profound affection, respect, and lasting sense of loss for John FitzGerald Kennedy
[00:11.71]I dearly wish that I could find more ways to live those words of his
[00:16.11]”Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
[00:22.34]But, whatever I try to give to my country it keeps giving right back to me
[00:26.90]Compounded every hour on the hour
[00:30.14]Only in America could all that’s happened to me, happen to a guy like me
[00:35.63]Anywhere else I might have wound up digging coal
[00:37.88]Or herding sheep or stuffing fortune cookies
[00:41.01]All respectable enough jobs but I imagine, for me, a bit frustrating
[00:46.63]My country has let me sing for my supper and then payed me for the food I eat
[00:51.53]I’ve had my ups and downs, but who hasn’t?
[00:54.64]But my low down downdest was certainly better than digging post holes
[00:59.22]For the iron or bare bull curtain, and you’d better believe me buster
[01:07.05]
[01:20.54]What is America to me?
[01:25.58]A name, a map, a flag I see
[01:30.90]A certain word, democracy
[01:37.98]What is America to me?
[01:47.08]The house I live in
[01:50.65]A plot of earth, a street
[01:54.54]The grocer and the butcher
[01:57.89]And the people that I meet
[02:02.24]The children in the playground
[02:06.31]The faces that I see
[02:10.39]All races and religions
[02:15.05]That’s America to me
[02:22.32]A place I work in
[02:25.82]A worker by my side
[02:29.74]A little town or city
[02:33.69]Where my people lived and died
[02:38.54]The howdy and the handshake
[02:42.18]The air of feeling free
[02:45.84]And the right to speak my mind out
[02:50.94]That’s America to me
[02:57.39]The things I see about me
[03:01.19]The big things and the small
[03:05.35]The little corner newsstand
[03:09.04]And the house a mile tall
[03:13.31]The wedding and the churchyard
[03:17.23]A laughter and the tears
[03:20.86]And the dream that’s been a growing
[03:25.45]For a hundred and eighty years
[03:33.05]The town I live in
[03:38.00]The street, the house, the room
[03:42.76]Pavement of the city
[03:46.30]Or a garden all in bloom
[03:51.59]The church, the school, the clubhouse
[03:56.16]The millions lights I see
[04:00.48]But especially the people
[04:11.87]That’s America to me
[04:29.63]Year of Release: 2010