House I Live In, The (1945)

[Music] Sonata recording take [Music] three you are a dream I hope I never Wen it's more than I [Music] could to find that I'm forsaken if you a fantasy then I'm content to be in love with lovely you and pray my dream comes true I long to kiss you but I would not dare I'm so afid that you may vanish in the air oh darling if our romance should break us I hope I never wake up if you are but a dream [Music] was a good one Frankie just give me 5 minutes and I'll have the other number ready I get a smoke next number [Music] boys somebody in for licking you bet we're going to smear yeah but 10 against one that's not very fair a come on what's it all about none of your business scared to tell me no I'm not as scared I'll fight you even not if I can help it I just want to know why the gang war we don't like him we don't want him in our neighborhood or going to our school I've been living here as long as you what's he got small pox or something we don't like his religion his religion look Mister he's a dirty now hold on I see what you mean you must be a bunch of those Nazi werewolves I've been reading about mister are you screwy not me I'm an American well what do you think we are Nazis don't call me a Nazi my father's a sergeant in the Army he' been wounded even wounded huh hey I bet he got some of that blood plasma K wouldn't it so bad he had to get it three times son anybody in your family ever go to the blood bank sure my mother and my father both uhhuh you know what I bet you maybe his Pop's blood helped save your Dad's life that's bad what's bad about it well don't you see your father doesn't go to the same church as his father does that's awful do you think maybe if your father knew about it in time he would rather have died than to take blood from a man of another religion would you have wanted him to die would your mom want him to die no look fellas religion makes no difference except maybe to a Nazi or somebody is stupid why people all over the world worship God in many different ways God created everybody he didn't create one people better than another your blood's the same as Mine mine's the same as his do you know what this wonderful country is made of it's made up of a hundred different kind of people and aund different ways of talking and a 100 different ways of going a church but they're all American ways wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people because they comb their hair different than ours wouldn't we be a lot of dopes my dad came from Italy but I'm an American but should I hate your father because he came from Ireland or France or Russia wouldn't I be a first class Fathead you guys remember Pearl Harbor why that sucked us so it looked like we could never do anything about it but a couple of days later something very important happened close your eyes and let me tell you about it go on go on close your eyes all of you I want you to imagine it there was a Battleship the Haruna and one of our planes spotted it do you know what it takes to bomber Battleship it takes guts and know how and teamwork and our boy sure needed plenty of it because that was thrown up enough flat to get out and walk home on but the pilot had only one thing on his mind to get over that ship and he did and then the bombarder pushed a button and a 500 lb tomato smacked that Z right in the middle yep they sank it and every American threw his head back and felt much better the pilot of that ship was named Kelly an American and a presbyterian and you know who dropped the bombs my 11 an American and a Jew you think maybe they should have called the bombing off because they had different religions think about that fellas use your good American heads don't let anybody make suck is out of here well got to go to work what do you work I S A you're a kid come here they all stand here and no hissing allowed what is America to me a name a map or a flag I see a certain word democracy what is America to me a house I live in a plot of Earth a street a grosser and the Butcher and the people that I meet the children in thegr the faces that I see all Races and religions that's America I in the worker at my side the little town City where my people lived and died The Howdy and the handshake the air of feeling free and the right to speak my mind out that's America to me the things I see about me the big things and the small the Corner New Stand and the house a mile tall the wedding and the churchard the laughter and the tears the dream that's been growing for 15 years the town I live in the street the house pavement of the city or a garden or In Bloom the church the school the clubhouse the million lights I see but especially the [Music] people that's a to so long man [Music]