The People

It’s the coach on his knee at a Tee ball game

Teacher grading papers every Saturday

That gold star wife giving overtime at the VA

It’s a long haul trucker with his kids on the dash

King Ranch farmer selling bushels out the back

Red-eyed waitress slinging diner coffee black

To a table full of names on a patch

It ain’t the bar it’s the clocking out drinkers

Ain’t the church it’s the choir of believers

Ain’t the stadium lights that make you get loud

It’s the boys on the field, it’s the fans in the crowd

Ain’t the place that makes it worth staying

Or the grace that makes it amazing

Ain’t the Stars and the Stripes putting

Freedom in the wings of the Eagle

It’s the people

It’s the good that you read in the Sunday paper

The midnight broke down roadside savior

The kid next door, the soldier the sailor

Putting life on the line for a stranger

It ain’t the bar it’s the clocking out drinkers

Ain’t the church it’s the choir of believers

Ain’t the stadium lights that make you get loud

It’s the boys on the field, it’s the fans in the crowd

Ain’t the place that makes it worth staying

Or the grace that makes it amazing

Ain’t the Stars and the Stripes putting

Freedom in the wings of the Eagle

It’s the people

It’s the people

It ain’t lady liberty or the liberty bell

Tea party in a harbor or the Oregon trail

That makes every acre worth passing down

It’s the boys on the field that bled for the ground

Ain’t the place that makes it worth staying

Or the grace that makes it amazing

Ain’t the Stars and the Stripes putting

Freedom in the wings of the Eagle

It’s the people