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gregory kemmis - the immigrant's father lyrics

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[gregory kemmis:]

[verse 1:]
grandma sailed the irish coast, when she was barely 13
she was young enough, to believe in her dreams
working at a sweatshop down on bleaker street
when she p-ssed by that window, she could see ms. liberty

i wonder if she really knew, what was really true
at that time when everybody seemed to be
oh everybody seemed to be, telling everybody what to do…
but women was trying to believe it too…

[chorus:]
she believed in a nation, she believed in love
she believed in loyalty
and she put her fate in the hands of god

we believe in a nation, that’s got more than a hand and water
that’s got more than land and water
i hope we know there’s a simple faith
the sign of strength and the immigrant’s daughter
(vocalization)

we are all a sign of strength
we are all the daughters of the immigrants’ fathers
of the father

[verse 2:]
these cannot be halted
dreams cannot be halted by famine or disease
we cannot be halted by circ-mstances out of our control
even though somebody may tell you:
“you are not anywhere worth taking a toil upon
“you are not anything worth finding, or building a dream upon.”
(ooh, ooh, ooh)

dreams are never worth fighting, (worth fighting against)
worth fighting against in the end, (ooh-ooh no)
the price is never ever too steep to take back your dreams
take back what it seems in reality, (ooh no)

[verse 3:]
we have married america
and we’re emotionally scrubbing it on her knees, (ooh-ooh-ooh)
fiercely, youngly and devoted to what is meant to be
we’re gladly giving our innocence to what is meant to be
and we are never embarr-ssed, the price is never too steep…
(vocalization)
for we know that in return:

(vocalization)
when we go to a university
to learn about the world’s uncertainties
we all have another strength
we all have a different length…
of what we learn about
of what we need to focus on, what we need to talk about

and that is part of the universal lesson to us
that is what we must address
that is another lesson about how we need to confess
but not how much, we need to learn from within (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[closing:]
i hope we have the simple strength
the silent faith to search within
and learn to, learn from deep within
we all have the simple strength
the silent strength of the immigrants’ father with us
within us…

- gregory kemmis lyrics

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