Ships came to an unseen shore somewhere And the land was unknown and said to be found As if it never existed before in this world As if the natives who lived there never been around They thought the ships had reached India in the east Navigating in these days was never an easy game From old Europe the people on the ships arrived For naming the natives Indians they could not be blamed They were building a land the American way They were building a land the American way The land was rich and it gave a good, thrieving life Increasing numbers of white people came to the land of plenty Pushing the natives further and further away from their land Founding gold in California became a stab in the natives back so sadly They would never stand a chance, white people flooded the land The natives where hunted and cruely put in these Indian reservations Soon the white man took over the whole country from east to west Now the native man is just a scattered rubble because of all violations They were building a land the American way They were building a land the American way When the land of opportunities grew itself bigger and bigger The need for cheap labor was also growing, but hard to find The natives where too weak and the white men much too few They got the cruel idea of where to find people of the right kind From the west coast of Africa the slavery ships find their ways With people in chains who now had to give up their lifes in freedom To work in the cottonfields or grow tobacco for their owners The slaves minds filled with hatred and their tongues spoke with venom They were building a land the American way They were building a land the American way They were building a land the American way They were building a land the American way
