”Americans must be American Again!"

Americans must be Americans Again!

Let them dream afresh the noble dream that made us see.

Let true patriots arise and renew America's claim

Of being the home of the brave and the land of the free

Let Americans recall the Framers' aims—

Let them build that bountiful land we once swore to love

Where neither tyrants' ploys nor traitors' games

Force anyone from anywhere to bow to those above.

Let Americans strive anew to make America the sweet land of Liberty

One unscarred by false pride or jealous greed,

Where the air is redolent with the scent of true Equality,

And Opportunity proliferates to answer every need.

Let us reclaim the poorer Whites, incited, duped, and driven wild,

And welcome the Reds from whom far too much has been seized.

And embrace the Blacks still scarred from being slavery's child

And accept the Yellows once into internment wrongly squeezed.

Welcome the immigrants clutching fast to hope in desperate need—

Fighting bravely against the same hard-hearted, vicious band

Ever to incite hatred, fear, and spite and to slake their rapacious greed

To keep others away from their places in this fortunate and promised land.

Let Americans look to the youth, all full of courage, hope, and daring-do

And keep them safe from that vast, far-reaching web of vile shams

Of propaganda, plots, and profiteering plans, of malice through and through!

Of broken promises and devious tales promoting nefarious scams

Let Americans demand an end to defaming workers and stealing their pay!

Of everything to slake one's lust and nothing for any other's need

Let them join with farmers who depend on soil and weather's whim each day.

And enlist all workers to end the stranglehold of corporate greed.

Let all Americans again dream those storied dreams.

That arduous work, skill, and ingenuity can lift all to new heights

That today's battles presage the bloom of more benevolent themes.

Let us, though beleaguered now, persevere in securing to all their Rights.

O, Patriots! You are they who never bowed in the face of woe and fears,

You are they who bravely raised the banner of the hallowed ideals

Who fought on though battered and disrespected all these many years.

You alone never forgot how devotion to the best within us feels.

While dreaming a dream so right, so bright in hue,

It shined through all the stone, concrete, and steel,

So forever more its mighty clarion rings forth anew

To make Americans strive to now prove their noble commitments real.

Americans are children of those who crossed the storm-tossed sea

All descendants of travelers from obscure and ominous climes,

Who risked all they had in a quest for what might and ought to be

Braving the waves in different ships from diverse shores at distinct times

Americans, no matter the strand from which their families came

Hope against hope to make themselves and their posterity free.

Now with courage, we rightly claim American as our honored name

And make America everything to everyone that it might and ought to be.

Let Americans once again recall all the evils we've fought and felled

And sing again the stirring anthems we so long have known

And hope again all the soaring aspirations we'd so fervently long held

And lift all the brave banners again that for centuries we've joyously flown

Though millions now have lost so much, they've almost nothing is left to lose

Though many are yet striving the cherished name, American, to win

We vow the dream has never died and will not die while we can still choose!

O' let Americans be Americans again

We, the people, who have as yet too seldom been

Must now see, the land we have is the land we make

And despite the odds, rise and insist Americans be Americans again.

Through the truths we tell and the risks we take

We must recall the meaning of ideals we once so cherished

And as Americans boldly and solemnly, our authentic Democracy reclaim

Our principles, purposes, and promises before they have perished

We must again lift our national vision and focus on the highest plain.

Americans: Female, Male, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White

All need to focus on the who, what, where, why, and when

And, arising together to carry forward the grand and glorious fight

By insisting, at long last, that "Americans must be Americans Again!"

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