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[In a singsong voice]
As your body grows bigger,
Your mind must flower.
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It's great to learn.
[Boy]
'Cause knowledge is power!
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[Singsong voice]
It's School House Rocky,
a chip on the block.
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All your favorite School House,
School House Rock!
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[Woman's voice singing]
My grandmother came from Russia,
a satchel on her knee.
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My grandfather had his father's cap,
he brought from Italy.
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They'd heard about a country
where life might let them win.
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They paid the fare to America
and there they melted in.
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Lovely Lady Liberty,
with her book of recipes.
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And the finest one she's got...
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is the Great American Melting Pot.
The Great American Melting Pot.
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[Boy] America was founded by the English!
[Girl]
But also by the Germans, Dutch and French.
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[Boy]
The principle still sticks,
our heritage is mixed.
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[Boy and Girl]
So any kid could be the president.
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[Woman]
You simply melt right in.
It doesn't matter what your skin.
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It doesn't matter where you're from,
or your religion. You jump right in...
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to the Great American Melting Pot.
The Great American Melting Pot
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Ooo, what a stew;
Red, white and blue.
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America was the New World
and Europe was the Old,
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America was the land of hope,
or so the legend told.
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On steamboats by the millions,
in search of honest pay,
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those 19th century immigrants sailed
to reach the U.S.A.
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Lovely Lady Liberty,
with her book of recipes.
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And the finest one she's got...
is the Great American Melting Pot.
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The Great American Melting Pot
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What good ingredients,
liberty and immigrants.
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They brought the country's customs,
their language and their ways.
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They build the factories to the soil,
helped build the U.S.A.
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Go on and ask your grandma,
hear what she has to tell;
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how great to be American
and something else as well.
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Lovely Lady Liberty,
with her book of recipes
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And the finest one she's got,
is the Great American Melting Pot.
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The Great American Melting Pot.
The Great American Melting Pot.
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The Great American Melting Pot.
The Great American Melting Pot.
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The Great American Melting Pot.
The Great American Melting Pot [Fades out].
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[Sound of Book Closing]
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[Instrumental music]
