Our Country     John Mellencamp
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I can stand beside   Ideals I think are right
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And I can stand beside   The idea of stand and fight
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And I do believe    There?s a dream for everyone
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This is our country

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There's room enough here    For science to live
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And there's room enough here   For religion to forgive
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And try to understand    The other people of this land
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This is our country

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From the east coast
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To the west coast
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Down the Dixie Highway
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Back home
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This is our country
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That poverty could be    Just another ugly thing
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And bigotry could be    Seen only as obscene
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And the ones that run this land  Will help the poor and common man
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This is our country

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The dream will never leave  And some day it will come true
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And it?s up to me and you  To do the best that we can do
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And let the voice of freedom  Sing out through this land
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This is our country

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