Across America Lyrics - The Loving Kind - Nanci Griffith

I've heard enough from pundits, I've heard our leaders speak 

I tell you now I'd rather talk to the people in the streets 

'Cause you don't know someone until you've looked them in the eye 

And that gave me a purpose and every reason why 

I drove myself across America from sea to shining sea 

From the rocky coast of Maine to the mighty redwood trees 

From the plains of North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico 

It's good to know that hope's alive again across America 

I spoke to folks in New Orleans with hammers in their hands 

There's a waitress in Missouri who wants her own health plan 

And to the workers up in Michigan in all the auto plants 

There were working men and women saying yes, we can 

Your checks and stocks and banks can't take our hope away 

You can't foreclose on hope, nobody has to pay