The House I Live In by Frank Sinatra

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  1. Margot2

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    Lyrics
    What is America to me
    A name, a map, or a flag I see
    A certain word, democracy
    What is America to me

    The house I live in
    A plot of Earth, a street
    The grocer and the butcher
    And the people that I meet

    The children in the playground
    The faces that I see
    All races and religions
    That's America to me

    The place I work in
    The worker by my side
    The little town the city
    Where my people lived and died

    The howdy and the handshake
    The air a feeling free
    And the right to speak your mind out
    That's America to me

    The things I see about me
    The big things and the small
    The little corner newsstand
    Or the house a mile tall

    The wedding and the churchyard
    The laughter and the tears
    The dream that's been a growing
    For a hundred and fifty years

    The town I live in
    The street, the house, the room
    The pavement of the city
    Or the garden all in bloom

    The church the school the clubhouse
    The million lights I see
    But especially the people
    That's America to me
    Songwriters: LEWIS ALLAN, EARL ROBINSON
     
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    Thanks for posting this.
     
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    @ronv

    This is from 1945. Note the reference to Nazis.
     
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    ??????????????
     
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    Did you watch the video? Sinatra is talking to the boys in the neighborhood who are mistreating an outsider.
     
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    I'll confess to not listening to the entire song since you took the time to write out the words.
    But I never heard anything about NAZIs.
    It was a nice lesson in tolerance and diversity.
     
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    yeah it's nice... makes you want to build a wall around it and keep it safe
     
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    No reference to Nazi's anywhere in what I heard or saw?????
     
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    Or build ports of entry to welcome people from all over the world to visit or join us as Americans. I have always thought of America as the promised land for others seeking a better way of life for them and their children. I was taught that by my grandparents who heard it from theirs. My vision Of America does not include a big wall with razor wire on the top and people with guns warding people off.
     
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    Sustainability... you lefties use it often. Sustainable growth in population or your country will collapse. So as sweet and cute and cuddly as it is to embrace the whole world... the whole world will crush you... and all the other innocent Americans who didn't ask for it.
     
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    I have nothing but respect for those knocking and trying to enter through the front door. For those trying to crawl in through the window however not so much.
     
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    How about the ones who came to visit and fell in love with the country and wish to stay. I have dozens of Irish friends who have lived in New York for decades without committing any crime except overstaying their visas and want to become Americans. Same with a lot of Mexicans and Central Americans. These are good productive people and I would be proud to sponsor all of them to become citizens.
     
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    Coes falling in love with your house give me the right to camp out in your living room in perpetuity?

    That being said I am all for giving such people a leg up in the process and allowing them to stay here while the process is in play.

    That being said the H1b visa system is horribly abused and among the worst abusers are big tech.
     
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    Sinatra got an academy award for this short film which he was always proud of. In the beginning he breaks up a fight among the schoolboys.. The scene is set for Sinatra to talk about xenophobia, racism, blood transfusions, immigrants and what it means to be an American. I am a big Sinatra fan my whole life and didn't know this short piece existed until last Friday. I shared it with my kids and grandkids.
     
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    Sinatra tells the schoolboys that they just fought a war to defeat the Nazi and their xenophobia.. He chides one boy who brags that he soldier/hero father received three blood transfusions for his wounds during the war.
     

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