American Dreamer

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[Verse 1]
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I know a woman
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Her husband died and he left her
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With two little children
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So she went back to school
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And she got a degree in business
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Yeah, now she owns one
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And she taught those kids
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You can do anything
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With the heart of a true believer
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Yeah, she's an American dreamer

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[Verse 2]
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And I've got a woman
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And she waits for me with the light 
on
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Because she knows I'm coming
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And she talks about babies
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And building a house in the 
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country
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Yeah, where it's sunny
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And she's got faith that can do 
anything
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But she'll never know how much I 
need her
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Yeah, she's an American Dreamer

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[Bridge]
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Back in the sixties, Merle Haggard's
 in prison
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He's thinking about writing a tune
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And a guy named Armstrong was crazy 
enough
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To think he could walk on the moon
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And a preacher named King, well he 
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had him a dream
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He believed we could all live as one
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And a soldier somewhere is praying 
for peace
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While he's cleaning his gun
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American dreamers

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[Verse 3]
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And I had a father;
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He said son if something ain't real
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Then you don't even bother
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And he wasn't a saint
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But, I'd swear the man walked on 
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water
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Yeah and he taught me
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I ain't just a long-legged 
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hell-raising
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Son of a pipe-lining, honky-tonk 
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singer
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Yeah, I'm an American dreamer
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(Dream as big as you want to) 
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I'm an American dreamer
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(There ain't nothing that you 
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can't do) I'm an American dreamer

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(Dream as big as you want to)I'm
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 an American dreamer

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