We Are the Greatest
Michael Tilson Thomas, Carl Sandburg
The doors were cedar
And the panels strips of gold
And the girls were golden girls
And the panels read and the girls chanted:
We are the greatest city
The greatest nation:
Nothing like us ever was
The doors are twisted on broken hinges
Sheets of rain swish through on the wind
Where the golden girls ran and the panels read:
We are the greatest city
The greatest nation
Nothing like us ever was