PETE... THATS AMERICA (Mile Rupcic)

 america
 isn't just the melting pot
 you'll also find r&r
 disneyland baseball and star wars
 times of despair times of hope
 one builds another destroys
 life's passing governments tall
 pete's hands are getting old

 from alaska to mexico
 it sure looks different man
 but it's all america

 in the sound of the streets
 in the mines on the farms
 pete's hands are not strong anymore
 sixty years they re fighting for the boss
 and somewhere in distant illinois
 a gravestone stands

 an empty coffin waiting for pete
 to come well whenever
 from alaska to mexico
 it sure looks different man
 but it's all america

 and
 when he falls asleep
 and never wakes again
 the only thing he really wants
 isn't bliss in paradise
 but the dawning gold of the old country

 from alaska to mexico
 it sure looks different man
 but it's aIl america