Promise and the Dream letra

There's a sadness in your singing I have never heard before
There's a dying in your living that exists from shore to shore
There's a coward in your character that I have never seen
America what happened to the promise and the dream.

The promise was that men could live and worship as they please
The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free
We closed so many doors and banned the prayers on many scenes
America what happened to the promise and the dream.

There's a numbness in your feeling for the disadvantaged poor
There's a weakness in your strenght because your leaders are unsure
There are shadows in the light that once was freedom's brightest beam
America what happened to the promise and the dream.

The promise was that men could live and worship as they please
The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free
You closed so many doors and banned the prayer on many scenes
America what happened to the promise and the dream.

There's a hating in your loving for the permanence of vows
Tomorrow doesn't matter it's all for the here and now
Your most important word called love is now a dirty thing
America what happened to the promise and the dream.

The promise was that men could live and worship as they please
The dream was for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free
You closed so many doors and banned the prayer on many scenes
America what happened to the promise and the dream...

Tom T. Hall - Letras

• A Bar With No Beer
• A Million Miles to the City
• A Picture of Your Mother
• A Week in a Country Jail
• Adventures Of Linda Bohannon
• Ain't Got the Time
• All You Want When You Please
• America the Ugly
• And I Love You So
• Another Town
• Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents a Gallon
• Back When The Old Homeplace Was New
• Back When We Were Young
• Ballad of Bill Crump
• Ballad of Forty Dollars
• Barn Dance
• Beautiful River Of Life
• Beauty Is a Fading Flower
• Beer Drinker's Waltz
• Big Motel on the Mountain
• Bill Monroe For Breakfast
• Bluegrass Festival in the Sky
• Bourbon Man
• Burning Bridges
• Canadian Women Canadian Clubs
• Candy in the Window
• Carter Boys
• Chattanooga Dog
• Christmas Is
• Cloudy Day
• Come On Back To Nashville
• Coming to the Party
• Coot Marseilles Blues
• Country Cabin-Itis
• Country Is
• Dark Hollow
• Deal
• Different Feeling
• Do It to Someone You Love
• Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe
• Easter Is
• Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing
• Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels
• Fallen Women
• Famous In Missouri
• Faster Horses (Cowboy and the Poet)
• Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
• Flat-Footin' It
• Forbidden Flowers
• Forget It
• Fox on the Run
• From a Mansion To a Honky Tonk
• From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk
• George (And The North Woods)
• George and the North Woods
• Gimme Peace
• Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time
• Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye
• Girls in Saigon City
• God Came Through Bellville Georgia
• God Came Through Bellville, Georgia
• Gone to Hell in a Basket
• Goodbye Cowgirl
• Grandma Whistled
• Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey
• Halloween Is
• Hang Them All
• Happy Groundhog Day
• Harmonica Man
• Harper Valley P.T.A.
• High Steppin' Proud
• Highways
• Hitchhiker
• Homecoming
• How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat
• I Can't Dance
• I Care
• I Couldn't Live In Southern California
• I Don't Want My Golden Slippers
• I Feel Like Flying Away
• I Flew Over Our House Last Night
• I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
• I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zeland
• I Left You Some Kisses On The Door
• I Like Beer
• I Like to Feel Pretty Inside
• I Love
• I Miss a Lot of Trains
• I Only Think About You When I'm Drunk
• I See
• I Still Care What Happens To You
• I Took a Memory to Lunch
• I Want to See the Parade
• I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew
• I Wish I Had a Million Friends
• I Wish I Loved Somebody Else
• I'd Rather Die Young
• I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again
• I'm a Cowboy Too
• I'm Forty Now
• I'm Not Ready Yet
• It Feels Better Now
• It Rained In Every Town Except Paducah
• It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines
• It's All In The Game
• It's Got to Be Kentucky for Me
• Jesus On The Radio (daddy On The Phone)
• Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You
• Joe, Don't Let Your Music Kill You
• Kentucky Feb 27.'71
• Kentucky in the Morning
• L.A. Blues
• Last Country Song
• Last Hard Town
• Legend Of The Lady Bear
• Letters
• Life Don't Have To Mean Nothing At All
• Little Bitty
• Little Brown Suitcase
• Little Green Flower With The Yellow On Top
• Little Lady Preacher
• Local Flowers
• Loneliest Girl in the Crowd
• Looking Forward to Seeing You Again
• Lost In Florida
• Love's Been Good to Me
• Lovin' Arms
• Lying Jim
• Mabel You Have Been a Friend To Me
• Magnificent Music Machine
• Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)
• Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
• Man Who Hated Freckles
• Man Who Shot Himself
• Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
• Mc Leay Street In Sydney
• Mcleay Street In Sydney
• Me and Jesus
• Me And Jimmie Rodgers
• Molly And Tenbrooks
• Monkey That Became President
• More About John Henry
• Mr. Bojangles
• My Heroes Have Always Been Highways
• Myra
• Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow
• Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town
• Negatory Romance
• Never Having You
• No New Friends Please
• No One Feels My Hurt
• Ode to a Half a Pound of Ground Round
• Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
• Old Enough to Want to (Fool Enough to Try)
• Old Five and Dimers Like Me
• Old Habits Die Hard
• Old Side Of Town
• Ole Lonesome George the Basset
• One Hundred Children
• One More Song for Jesus
• One Of The Mysteries Of Life
• Over and Over Again
• Over the Rainbow
• P.S. I Love You
• Pamela Brown
• Pay No Attention to Alice
• People As Crazy As Me
• Picture of Your Mother
• Piece of the Road
• Pinto the Wonder Horse Is Dead
• Pisty
• Pratt Street
• Promise and the Dream
• Raking Up Leaves
• Ramona's Revenge
• Rank Strangers
• Rattle Mouse
• Ravishing Ruby
• Redneck Riviera
• Rolling Mills of Middletown
• Royal Annie
• Running Wild
• Sad Song For My Friend
• Salute to a Switchblade
• Saturday Morning Song
• Second Handed Flower
• Secondhanded Flowers
• Senior Citizen Star
• Shame on the Rain
• She Gave Her Heart to Jethro
• Ships Go Out
• Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore
• Shoeshine Man
• Sing a Little Baby to Sleep
• Singer's Song
• Six O'clock News
• Sky Blue True
• Sneaky Snake
• Soldier Of Fortune
• Son Of Clayton Delaney
• Song for Uncle Curt
• Song of the One Legged Chicken
• Songwriter
• Souvenirs
• Spokane Motel Blues
• St. George Isle
• St. Louis Named a Shoe After Me
• Story of Your Life Is in Your Face
• Strawberry Farms
• Subdivision Blues
• Texas Never Fell In Love With Me
• Thank You Connersville Indiana
• Thanks Giiving Is
• That Lucky Old Sun
• That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
• That'll Be All Right With Me
• That's How I Got to Memphis
• That's Why You Have To Be You
• The Son of Clayton Delaney
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
• There Is a Miracle In You
• They Captured The Outlaw Last Night
• Three Sofa Story
• Time Takes Care Of a Few Things
• Too Many Do Goods
• Too Many Do-Goods
• Trees In Philadelphia
• Trip to Hyden
• Tulsa Telephone Book
• Turn It on Turn It on Turn It On
• Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall
• Water Blue
• Watertown Tennessee
• Way I've Always Been
• Way We Were
• We're All In This Thing Alone
• Week In a Country Jail
• What A Song
• What do You Mean When You Say Goodbye
• When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore
• Whiskey
• Whiskey Castles
• Who Needs a Baby
• Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs
• Whole Lot Of Love
• Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
• Windy City Anne
• World According To Raymond
• World the Way I Want It
• Year That Clayton Delaney Died
• You Are My Hero
• You Love Everybody But You
• You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)
• Your Birthday Is
• Your Man Loves You Honey