Deed for deed shall I return,
Justice here does rule the day.
Seek from me but what you earn -
Shop here sir? Then you must pay.
For I, like you, do dream and strive.
I, too, rejoice when I sail the sea.
‘Tis not for your sake that I’m alive -
Though it benefits you, I work for me.
For I’ve a life as good as yours,
And equal rights before the law!
I am the pilgrim to these shores
Who fled the slaver fascist’s jaw -
The Nazi camp, the five-year plan,
The “will of all”, the king’s decree.
But here the chains ‘round the workingman
Were removed for the first time in history.
Then naught must you demand of me,
For I live in the land of liberty,
With property safe and rights secure -
These United States shall forever endure. |
