Gather Round

The verses (as with many La Farge songs) are spoken as in a "talking blues".

Now I am just an Indian & my old car has running boards
I've stood in the unemployment line & I owe the clothes I can't afford
I wandered my way on "66" & I'm goin' from town to town
I've thumbed & bummed & worked & shirked but I'm here to gather round
C - F - / G - C - ://
So gather 'round, gather 'round
Gather 'round Americans, gather 'round (repeat)
F - C - / G - C - ://
If you want to know this country, if you want to know this land
Take a long look at the wide Missouri, walk the sandy Rio Grande
When you get to know her people, then you'll get to know her heart
You'll find New York & Frisco aren't so very far apart

There's been some talk that we are slipping, that our ratings are getting low
Some said we are fools & nincompoops & some that we're too slow
Well this is the land of Lincoln & the same of Washington
There's you & me & a whole lot more & Uncle Sam has just begun

I want you to get this straight without any seams
When they teach us our "Eagle" that's me that screams
I'm just an Indian guy but I'm going your way
With the American people in the USA

- lyrics & music by Peter La Farge
(c) All rights reserved. Recorded on his "On the Warpath" Folkways album.