What is A - merica to me? A name, a map, or a flag I see

A certain word: De - mocra - cy. What is A - merica to me?

1. The House I Live in, a plot of earth, the street

2. The place I work in, the worker by my side

The grocer and the butcher, and the people that I meet

The little town or city where my people lived and died

The children in the playground, the faces that I see

The howdy and the handshake, the air of feelin' free

All races and religions, that's A - merica to me.

The right to speak my mind out, that's A - merica to me.

The things I see a - bout me, the big things and the small

The little corner newsstand, or the house a mile tall

The wedding in the churchyard, the laughter and the tears

The dream that's been a-growin' for two hundred and fifty years

The town I live in, the street, the house, the room

The pavement of the city or a garden all in bloom

The church, the school, the clubhouse, the million lights I see

But e - specially the people, that's A - merica to me.