True Greatness Of America
© Surazeus
2026 06 19

We dance free in streets of America
to celebrate our right to earn a wage
and live with family in our own home
and travel wherever we wish to roam
on Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

Enchained and dragged across the raging sea
in fragile boats of innocent despair
real human beings were forced to slave in fields
where they sang of freedom with broken hearts
till Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

Though we are free to work the job we want
and earn enough from labor of our hands
to clothe and feed our family in safe homes
we slave for the low wage employers play
since Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

Rich men who lounge in tower offices
force us to work long hours for little pay
so we form unions of brave laborers
and strike to call for safer Working Ways
on Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

Economies of nations thriving well
are built by farmers raising crops we eat
and techs in factories assembling things
and drivers stocking stores where people shop
for Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

We now enjoy eight-hour-long working days
with holidays to celebrate our rights
and health insurance to work till old age
and pensions that sustain our twilight years
since Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

True greatness of America is built
by people working with their hands of faith
as long as we are free to live and play
while caring for our families with love
with Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

We gather in streets of America
every summer on June Nineteenth to sing
United with Love we shall overcome
games rich men play to enslave us with fear
on Juneteenth Abe abolished slavery
so every soul may live in Liberty.

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Orpheus stands on stage and sings anthem about the true greatness of America at the Juneteenth celebrations in the streets of America sea to shining sea.

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