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(tune: America the Beautiful)
O beautiful for bomb-free skies
For ample waves of grain
How can we on defenceless lands
Our bombs and terror rain?
America, America, oh how we weep for thee
Bemoan the loss of siblinghood
Across both land and sea
O beautiful for immigrants
Who gave here of their best
Who built our future, found their homes
Across the wilderness
America, America, oh how we weep for thee
For once you stood for principles
That we all might be free
O beautiful heroic brave
Like those who ne'er came back
As up the Twin Towers steps they trod
After that grim attack
America, America, oh how we weep for thee
How can we now civilians kill
And the aggressor be
O beautiful for wise ones' dreams
For Sanger, Tubman, King
Who saw a vision through the years
Of great awakening
America, America, oh how we hope for thee
Restore the sense of siblinghood
Across both land and sea
By GranMotoko
of the Raging Grannies Without Borders
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