Over The Border (to America) Lyrics - Graham Parker

A man smokes and a dog stretches A woman works and a kid kvetches 

I'm ridin' on a road that stretches Over the border to America 

Over the border to America (INTRO) 

I got nothin' but lonesome time A backyard and a religious shrine 

There must be something better over there 

Over the border to America (INRO 

There's a lot of versions of the honest truth 

One for them and baby one for you 

One for the rich one for the poverty stricken 

One for the healthy and one for the sick and 

One for the tortured and one for the slave 

One they tell you when they put you in your grave 

One for the businessman with someone else's money 

One for the beggar with nothing in his belly (INTRO) 

We got one room to live in wife, child and man 

Not much bigger than an ice cream van 

Sometimes we walk a mile and stand and stare 

Over the border to America (INTRO) 

I stood and watched as the wall came down 

Heard the freedom bell begin to sound 

Watched the hammer as it hit the ground 

Saw the sickle spinning round and round 

Now don't make us out to be peons or fools 

We're into Zeppelin and Paula Abdul 

Now we're all gonna live in that cultural mecca 

Order everyone a triple decker 

We're gonna buy a thousand pair of nylons 

Come and live on Staten Island 

Oh Liberty let me walk in there 

Where law and justice are always fair 

There's only one place to get your share 

Over the border to America 

Over the border to America 

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