Parade - How Can I Call This Home? lyrics
rate meSLATON:<br />
Today we honor those who honored us some fifty years ago.<br />
Those 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 la la la Atlanta<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?
