Melanie Hammet: Listen⎟

Inauguration Day 2009


Inauguration Day could be a string of pearls
Could be a pillbox hat land of the brave new world
Look the White House shine look at the limousine
Look as we lift our lamp could be the twilight’s last gleam


I see a wave from an amber man going against the grain
Under a spacious sky purple above a fruited plain


Inauguration Day ask not what he can do
Oh say can you see us now colored in red white blue


Deer and the antelope play from sea to shining sea
We are our tired our poor our country ‘tis of thee you and me


Inauguration Day do I hear freedom ring
Four score or seven years echoes of I have a dream



A dream

A dream