Parade movie - How Can I Call This Home lyrics
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SLATON:<br>
Today we honor those who honored us some fifty years ago. <br>
Lose who gave life and limb for Georgia. <br>
And suffered unimaginable degredation. But never defeat. <br>
The men of Georgia, and the women of Georgia have never been defeated...<br>
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LEO:<br>
I go to bed at night<br>
Hoping when I wake<br>
This will all be gone<br>
Like it was just a dream<br>
And I'll be home again<br>
Back again in Brooklyn<br>
Back with people who look like I do<br>
And talk like I do<br>
And think like I do<br>
But then<br>
The sun rises in Atlanta again...<br>
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SLATON:<br>
They have risen from the ashes of war with honor and courage and strength!<br>
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LEO:<br>
These people make me tense<br>
I live in fear they'll start a conversation<br>
These people make no sense<br>
They talk and I just stare and shut my mouth<br>
It's like a foreign land<br>
I didn't understand<br>
That being Southern's not just being in the South<br>
Whan I look out on all this<br>
How can I call this Home?<br>
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SLATON: I am proud to be a Georgian on this day<br>
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LEO:<br>
These men belong in zoos<br>
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ASSORTED TOWNSPEOPLE:<br>
Excuse me! Sorry! Get your souveneirs!<br>
Watch your step sir<br>
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LEO:<br>
It's like they've never joined civilization<br>
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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br>
Where's the fella with the beer!<br>
Mamma that man pushed me!<br>
Lucinda! Hey now, fella!<br>
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LEO:<br>
The Jews are not like Jews<br>
I thought that Jews were Jews<br>
But I was wrong<br>
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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br>
You got ballons? I want one!<br>
Settle down... I never in my life!<br>
I'll take a beer!<br>
That Slaton's handsome...<br>
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LEO:<br>
I thought I would be fine<br>
But four years down the line<br>
With ev'ry word it's very clear<br>
I don't belong<br>
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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br>
La la la in the land o' cotton<br>
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LEO:<br>
I don't cuss, I don't drawl<br>
So how can I call this home?<br>
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SLATON: Proud that our state is growing and building!<br>
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LEO:<br>
Home calls, and I'm free of the Southern breeze<br>
Free of magnolia trees and endless sunshine!<br>
Evermore lives the dream of Atlanta<br>
But not mine!<br>
Not mine<br>
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ENSEMBLE:<br>
We stand together<br>
In this great state of Georgia<br>
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LEO:<br>
A Yankee with a college education<br>
Who by his own design<br>
Is trapped inside the land<br>
That time forgot<br>
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ENSEMBLE:<br>
Strong and proud<br>
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LEO:<br>
I'm trapped inside this life<br>
And trapped beside a wife<br>
Who would prefer that I said "Howdy" not "Shalom"<br>
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Well I'm sorry Lucille<br>
But I feel what I feel<br>
And this place is surreal<br>
So How can I call this home!<br>
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