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Aliens (3:28): Whatever happened to the words written on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…I lift my lamp beside the golden door”?

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ALIENS
You call us 'aliens'
Just like from outer space
I am a citizen
But of another place

Over the mountain
Across the water
Each lonely immigrant
Is some land's native daughter

We all have accents
When someone's listening
We all seem alien
When someone new is watching

When you say immigrants
Are not like others
What are you saying
About your own grandmothers

Over the mountain
Across the water
Each lonely immigrant
Is some land's native daughter

Though every nation
Will guard its 'purity'
We all were immigrants
Some time in history

We guard our borders
Lest 'they' invade
Those who arrived last year
Are standing at the barricade

Over the mountain
Across the water
Each lonely immigrant
Is some land's native daughter

What is this impulse
To separate our kin
We build new houses
Then will not let our neighbors in

These jagged borders
Are sharpest in our minds
The human family
Is not made up of different kinds

Over the mountain
Across the water
Each lonely immigrant
Is some land's native daughter

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Saro Lynch-Thomason North Carolina

Saro Lynch-Thomason is a ballad singer, song writer, folklorist, documentarian, and illustrator from Asheville, North Carolina. Her passion for traditional music, people’s struggles and Appalachian traditions calls her to perform, teach and produce media that tell the stories and songs of America’s social history. ... more

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