Sweat Stained Shirts

 

They tore down the steel mill on Second Avenue

All along the riverbank is silent

These things we hold so true, we let slip away

A Slovaks dream comes true

 

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Sweat stained shirts, thirteen children to feed

Women pray to God for his mercy

That’s how the west was won, that’s how it all began

This is where the ending must be

 

See it in their faces, hear it in their songs

Feel it in their hearts that have been broken

The old know the truth, the young hold the dream

Those that past now can sing

 

Chorus

 

Bridge:

Faded pictures and memories

Faded lives from another century

Never thought that it meant that much to me

 

William and Katherine, sitting in a tree

So in love, in the year 1903

These things that give us hope, we let slip away

The American dreams funny that way

 

Chorus