Help! I need some suggestions for great music to accompany this

[daninthemoon]

great day. Another poster used: "A Change is Gonna Come." Give me some more. Today is the fulfilment of many great songs of hope, protest, and yes: patriotism.

[Not the Only One]

1. go to this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4355812

[daninthemoon]

4. Thanks. I figured there was probably already a thread like this.

[riverwalker]

2. American Land

by Springsteen, the immigrant song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qErFzLPQyhU&feature=related

AMERICAN LAND

What is this land of America, so many travel there
I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there
Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
And we'll make our home in the American land

Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees*
And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees*
Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands*
If you make your home in the American land*

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land

I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire****
We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands
And I made my home in the American land

There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land

The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis too**
The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews
The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home***-*****
Come across the water with a fire down below******

They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now
The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down

There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land


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[loyalkydem]

3. Here's a good song

Carry on my wayward son by Kansas

[onenote]

5. here is a short list of some of my picks for tonight

Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye - Steam
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
Dancin in the Streets - Martha Reeves
Something in the Air -- Thunderclap Newman
People Got to be Free -- the Rascals
Listening to You -- The Who

[justgamma]

6. The perfect song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikMhfKmBrY

"The Impossible Dream" (a .MP3 file courtesy MGM).

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

[ThatsMyBarack]

7. I posted this in another thread...

And I'm happy to post it again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtG_y3Z6_pQ

Enjoy! :bounce: :woohoo: :patriot: