In God's Country

Sweet land of liberty For men like you and me It's milk and honey Spoiled and sour City and serenity Sunken below blackened hills It's banner and wings torn and muddy Melting memories of Mayflower Winter comes in like a flood in God's country While the good ones slumber in God's country Arise in me chariot Eternal flame from sea to sea It's torch and fire Rekindled and brighter Cities of hospitable means Beneath the royal ridge It's railroad crossed and hedges cut asunder The colonial soil once trodden by our ancestors The same plains soon traversed by the world's finest players Ring a sweet melody from Rome to the Empire's Olympus Summer comes in like a banner raised in God's country While the good ones yearn and discover in God's country We'll bust through brassy skies On wings of love let us watch and remember The days the demons died He's liberty, He's recovered and rescued you and me Sweetness and savour Refined and empowered His city of golden avenues Risen over angelic houses and hotels It's gates and tower high and gleaming