Thank God for America - The Wolfe Tones

They left the old world for the new

And sailed across the sea

Driven from their homeland

To a land of liberty

Driven by the tyrant’s hand

From Erin’s Isle so green

They crossed the western ocean

To find life’s elusive dreams

Into the bowels of the cities and the towns

There the Irish made their way

Across the new horizons

Far away from the bitter sea

They left their homes in Ireland

No more of the land to see

And made their way all over the land

And found a home all over the land

All over the land

Colorado, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California,

North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Oregon,

Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, Maine

All over, all over

Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Alaska,

Utah, Iowa, Ottawa, Omaha, Idaho, New Mexico

All over, all over

Minnesota, Arizona, Carolina North and South,

Nevada, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Missouri

All over, all over

Come on everybody, thank God for America

Thank God for America

For your country and your fertile shores

Thank God for America

For we love this land forever more

Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see

We’re all part of America

It’s a land that’s part of you and me

Thank God for America

They left the old world for the new

And sailed across the sea

Driven from their homeland

To a land of liberty

Driven by the tyrant’s hand

From Erin’s Isle so green

They crossed the western ocean

To find life’s elusive dream

Over the hills and the valleys and the plains

The Irish brought the railways there

Blazing the trails of America

Far away from the bitter sea

From the gold mines to the coal mines

Up and down the cattle trails

They made their way all over the land

And found a home all over the land

All over the land

Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,

Nova Scotia, Tennessee, and Kentucky

All over, all over

Buffalo to Boston, Washington, Wyoming,

Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Delaware,

Don’t forget Connecticut

All over, all over

Colorado and Chicago, Ohio, Illinois,

Maryland, Newfoundland, Barrow, and Rhode Island

All over, all over

Thank God for America

For your country and your fertile shores

Thank God for America

For we love this land forever more

Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see

We’re all part of America

It’s a land that’s part of you and me

Thank God for America