[Lyrics and Melodies by Mark Boals / Music by Tony MacAlpine]
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[2002 Boalsongs BMI / Eyes on the Prize BMI]
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From the deserts to the oceanside
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From the mountains to the plains
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From two thousand years of peaceful life
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To only strife and pain
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Came to move them from ancestral homes
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Bringing howling winds of war
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To see the endless sky and earth below
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Nevermore
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Death and destruction
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Came rolling from all directions
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Then came the deal makers
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Selling their lies
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A forgotten people
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Forced to wander the earth
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Never respected
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Only (neglected)
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Receiving no honor
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Holding on to their pride
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Only were cheated
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Never defeated
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Many generations had come and gone
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But their land was never changed
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Life in harmony with nature reigned
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Until the white men came
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Until they said this is our promised land
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It's our eminent domain
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Let's destroy all traces of the past
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Let nothing remain
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Death and destruction
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Came rolling from all directions
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Then came the deal makers
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Selling their lies
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A forgotten people
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Forced to wander the earth
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Never respected
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Only rejected
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Receiving no honor
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Holding on to their pride
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Only were cheated
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Never defeated
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Death and destruction
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Came rolling from all directions
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Then came the deal makers
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Selling their lies
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A forgotten people
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Forced to wander the earth
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Never respected
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Only rejected
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Receiving no honor
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Holding on to their pride
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Only were cheated
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Never defeated
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Theirs is the ghost of America
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Ghost Of America
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| Ring Of Fire |
