Band Group 1
Not like the famous statues in Greece that look like they are showing off,
The Statue of Liberty welcomes people into our country and her name is “Mother of Unwanted.”
Everyone’s welcome world wide.
The Statue of Liberty watches over people.
New York and New Jersey frame Liberty Island.
"Rich people stay in your homeland."
She’s a beacon to the poor and homeless who come for better opportunities
"If you come you will be safe from war and persecution.
Give me your bad trash of overflowing shores.
Send these, homeless, violent winds to me.
I will light the way."
Chorus Group
Unlike the fake giant the Greeks worshiped with omnipotence,
here at the opening of the country on our beaches shall stand
a symbol of hope and welcoming.
Light is hope.
She embodies the immigrants and exiles as their mother.
She welcomes the world with her gentle eyes and commands the invisible bridge that two states surround.
“Keep your magnificent stories!” she cries without talking.
“Give me the tired and poor people, your people wanting to be free, the miserable who are at your shore.
Send these refugees to me
I light the way into America!"
Band Group 2
Unlike the proud Colossus of Rhodes
with crushing feet spread across from island to island,
here at our shore is standing
a powerful woman holding a torch
and her flame in the torch is the breakthrough
and her name is the Statue of Liberty.
From the Statue’s hand is a shining signal
shining world peace, her eyes in charge;
The bridge for peace between New York and New Jersey.
“Keep rich people where they are. Send me the people who can’t care for themselves” she says quietly.
“The trash of your crowded land, send these, the homeless, who have been through storms.
I lift my torch with hope.”
Unlike the proud Colossus of Rhodes
with crushing feet spread across from island to island,
here at our shore is standing
a powerful woman holding a torch
and her flame in the torch is the breakthrough
and her name is the Statue of Liberty.
From the Statue’s hand is a shining signal
shining world peace, her eyes in charge;
The bridge for peace between New York and New Jersey.
“Keep rich people where they are. Send me the people who can’t care for themselves” she says quietly.
“The trash of your crowded land, send these, the homeless, who have been through storms.
I lift my torch with hope.”