AN AMERICAN NATION



  To be free from a tyrant far across the sea, blood would be seen,


  Men would gather as a vote would change the way life would be.


 The right to live as they chose on an american land, gun in hand,


  Farmers put down their pitchforks and swore to fight for their rights.


  Melitia was formed, sons were to take up arms and on their land, a fight,


 This is an American nation! Colonies of thirteen would stand together.


 The british soldiers would march on land, ships of many upon the sea,


  A war does not discriminate, is not prejudice as men, women, and 
  children do Die.

 There are many whom will lay upon the land, forgotten as the years 
  Drift on by,

  A patriot holds a flag of stars and stripes, strong in his hands, waiving 
  As the battle rages.

  Bullets fly, cannonballs ring loud in the sky, swords take away lives 
  from both sides,

  An American nation! their spirits sing out from more than two hundred 
  And fifty years ago,

 Believed and cared for a land so long ago, the American way has decayed, 
  Lost in today.
       Keith Garrett