Promise And The Dream Lyrics - Tom T. Hall

There's a sadness in your singing, I have never heard before 

There's a dying in your living that exists from shore to shore 

There's a coward in your character that I have never seen 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream 

The promise was that men could live and worship as they please 

The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free 

We closed so many doors and banned the prayers on many scenes 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream 

There's a numbness in your feeling for the disadvantaged poor 

There's a weakness in your strength because your leaders are unsure 

There are shadows in the light that once was freedom's brightest beam 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream 

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The promise was that men could live and worship as they please 

The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free 

You closed so many doors and banned the prayer on many scenes 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream 

There's a hating in your loving for the permanence of vows 

Tomorrow doesn't matter it's all for the here and now 

Your most important word called love is now a dirty thing 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream 

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The promise was that men could live and worship as they please 

The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free 

We closed so many doors and banned the prayers on many scenes 

America, what happened to the promise and the dream