America Will Be Tour: Iowa Choral Director's Association Summer Symposium

Oh, say say say say
Say say say say

Say say say say

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Say, can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

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By the dawn’s early light,

Dawn’s early light?

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Love is love, 

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Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Love is love,
Love is love, 

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Black lives matter,

Black lives matter,

Black lives matter,

Matter.

Women’s rights are human rights,

no human is illegal.
Women’s rights are human rights,

no human is illegal.

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No human is illegal.

No human is illegal.

No human is illegal.

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Women’s rights are human rights.
Say, can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

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By the dawn’s early light,

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Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Love is love. Love is love.

Love is love. Love is love.

Love is love.

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Kindness is ev’rything. Kindness is ev’rything.

Kindness is ev’rything. Kindness is ev’rything.

Ev’rything. Ev’rything.

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn’s early light?
Love is love.

Black lives matter.

Women’s rights are human rights.

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn’s early light?
No human is illegal.
Science is real.
Water is life.

Kindness is ev’rything.
Kindness is ev’rything.

Ev’rything, ev’rything.

Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free

and the home of the brave?

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1 2 3…

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1 2 and 3, 2 and 3 to 1 2 and 3…

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I’m sitting here facin’ twenty-five to life,

You met up with some friends and got in a fight.

You know that the system is made to throw us away,

nothing has changed.

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But that was fifteen years ago,

he took the socks cuz our baby’s feet were cold.

Didn’t know that the sins of my past would come back tenfold,

life no parole.

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How could you call this a crime?

They sayin’ one mo’ time they give me life.

Strike 3 2 1

Oh we’re runnin’ outta time.

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A system broken

Many years stolen

For a petty crime

Twenty five to life,

Locked away, forgotten

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There’s no room to forgive in a law that stems from pain.

Fear and justice aren’t the same.

Where is there room for grace when a law says one to three,

3 to life

All of my, all, all of my life

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A system broken,

Many years stolen.

For a petty crime,

Twenty five to life,

Locked away, forgotten.

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This law, this system broken,

Too many years are stolen, why?

The cost must match the price, not a life.

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This law, this system broken,

Too many years are stolen, why?

The cost must match the price, not a life.

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1 2 and 3, 2 and 3 to 1 2 and 3, 3 2 life.

Hmm…

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If you are detained by ICE: Remain silent.

You have the right to not sign anything.

You have the right to call your attorney or emergency contact.

You have the right to call your consulate.

You have the right to find out your Alien Number.

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Todos tenemos estos derechos.

(We all have those rights.)

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Todos tenemos estos derechos.

(We all have those rights.)

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Todos.
(All.)

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This house was built on dreams,

This house was built on dreams,

And fear, and hope, and the unknown.

Unknown, unknown.

This house was built on love,

And tradition, and food.

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In this house, we harbor “drug lords”
In this house, we harbor “drug lords”

and “rapist” And “illegals” and “aliens”

If ICE comes to your home,

do not open the door.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

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You are NOT required to open the door

unless ICE has a warrant signed by a judge.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

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Ask them to show you the warrant -
Slide it under the door or hold it up to the window.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

IF THEY TRY TO FORCE THE DOOR OPEN

Write down the agents’ badge numbers

and vehicles’ license plate numbers. 

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

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Ah…

In this house, in this house,
we harbor innovators,

and workers, and dreamers,

Dreamers, mm.

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Dios te bendiga. Dios te bendiga.

Dios te bendiga. Dios te bendiga.

(God bless you)

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mm

n’na’nn

Cold winds blow over my barren soul,

Scattered pieces of my life across broken time,

I am alone.

Surrounded by eternity

I hear a voice

Calling me:

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Come back…

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I am broken, yet whole.

Listen deeply,

Your true self sings

Throw open the door,

Come back to that voice,

Share that voice,

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Your voice…

we cannot leave
this land of our ancestors
on this earth
we are being killed
by the monster
on this earth
I want to get on the train
in the morning
oh, mother,
it’s leaving me behind

Dm da ya duh n duh oo da ya da n duh

When you’re weary

Feeling small

When tears are in your eyes

I will dry them all.

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I’m on your side.

Oh, when times get rough

And friends just can’t be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

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Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

I will lay me down.

Oo

When you’re down and out

When you’re on the street

When evening falls so hard

I will comfort you.

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I’ll take your part.

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Oh, when darkness comes

And pain is all around

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

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I. “We know”

Ok is the first Icelandic glacier

to lose its status as a glacier.

In the next 200 years,all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.

This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done

Only you know if we did it.

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Easy on the earth, lightly on the water,

remember this place is for your sons and

daughters,

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Easy on the earth, lightly on the water

Remember who this place is for

Get your kids to a garden, with the garden they'll

grow

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They'll learn to go easy and learn to live slow

Just get your kids to a garden, with the garden

they'll grow

They'll learn to go easy on the earth, lightly on

the water

Remember this place is for your sons and

daughters

Easy on the earth, lightly on the water

Remember who this place is for

Get your kids to a river, with the river they'll flow

It'll teach em' how to paddle, teach em’ how to

row.

Get your kids to a river, with the river they'll flow

It'll take em' where they need to go

Ima' go easy, easy, I’m going easy yea (REPEAT)

Let em' see their reflection wherever they go

In the rain water, flood water, sleet, hail, snow

Let em' see their reflection wherever they go

And go Easy on the earth, lightly on the water,

remember this place is for your sons and

daughters,

Easy on the earth, lightly on the water

Remember who this place is for.

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This is where we found
our home away from home.
This is where we belong.

Mother Earth, who feeds us all,

takes our roots no matter how long,
she’s whisp’ring:

this is where you belong.
(repeat 2 more times)

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Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist!

Pelea con diente y madre!

Pelea con diente y madre!
(Fight with tooth and mother!)

She’s whisp’ring:

this is where you belong, Dreamer!

She’s whisp’ring:

this is where you belong, Dreamer!

She’s whisp’ring: this is where you belong.

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mm… oo…
oh  oo  oh  mm  ah  mm

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Yo sueño de un nuevo amanecer… 

(Spanish: I dream of a new dawn)

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Who are you that mumbles in the dark?

Who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

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Mage anagatha sinduwa…

(Sindhala: I sing for the future)

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Umaasa ako no may pagbabago

(Filipino: I hope there is a change)

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‘Atamanaa ‘an albashar yatealam an yu hib

(Arabic: I hope that people can learn to love)

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Eu canto porque estou livre

(Portuguese: I sing because I am free)

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I’m the one who dreamt a dream

while still a serf of kings,

A dream so strong, so brave,

so true that even yet it sings,
even yet it sings,

mm ah

Umaasa aka no may pagbabago…
(I hope there is change.)

Mage anagatha sinduwa…
(I sing for the future.)

‘Atamanaa ‘an albashar yatealam an yu hib…
(I hope that people can learn to love.)

Eu canto porque estou livre.
(I sing because I am free.)

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To build a homeland of the free.
Free?
Oo…

Give me your tired,

Wŏ mèngxiăngzhe měihăo de wèilái

(Mandarin: I dream of a better future)

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Give me your poor.

Seigi wo motomete

(Japanese: I hope for justice)

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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

Ich singe für eine Flucht aus der Welt

(German: I sing for an escape from the world)

Give me the wretched refuse

of your teeming shore.

Còn uoć mong hoà binh

(Vietnamese: I dream of peace)

Mwen chante pou lapè sou Latè

(Haitian Creole: I sing for peace)

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Send these to me! Send these to me!

Send these to me!

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I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

ah

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For all the songs we’ve sung,

And all the dreams we’ve dreamed,

America was never America to me,

and yet, and yet I swear, and yet I swear:

America will be!

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Soñar es desear la dicha (To dream is to wish for joy)
En el porvenir (in the future)
Lo que el corazón anhela (What the heart longs for)
Se sueña y se suele vivir. (it dreams and it’s used to living.)

Si amor es el bien deseado (If love is well-desired)
En dulces sueños llegará (it will come in sweet dreams)

No importa cuan dificil sea. (It doesn’t matter how difficult it is)

En tanto tú lo creas (as soon as you belive it,)

Se hará realidad tu soñar. (your dreaming will be your reality.)