| They left the old world for the new | 
| And sailed across the sea | 
| Driven from their homeland | 
| To a land of liberty | 
| Driven by the tyrant’s hand | 
| From Erin’s Isle so green | 
| They crossed the western ocean | 
| To find life’s elusive dreams | 
| Into the bowels of the cities and the towns | 
| There the Irish made their way | 
| Across the new horizons | 
| Far away from the bitter sea | 
| They left their homes in Ireland | 
| No more of the land to see | 
| And made their way all over the land | 
| And found a home all over the land | 
| All over the land | 
| Colorado, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California, | 
| North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Oregon, | 
| Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, Maine | 
| All over, all over | 
| Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Alaska, | 
| Utah, Iowa, Ottawa, Omaha, Idaho, New Mexico | 
| All over, all over | 
| Minnesota, Arizona, Carolina North and South, | 
| Nevada, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Missouri | 
| All over, all over | 
| Come on everybody, thank God for America | 
| Thank God for America | 
| For your country and your fertile shores | 
| Thank God for America | 
| For we love this land forever more | 
| Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see | 
| We’re all part of America | 
| It’s a land that’s part of you and me | 
| Thank God for America | 
| They left the old world for the new | 
| And sailed across the sea | 
| Driven from their homeland | 
| To a land of liberty | 
| Driven by the tyrant’s hand | 
| From Erin’s Isle so green | 
| They crossed the western ocean | 
| To find life’s elusive dream | 
| Over the hills and the valleys and the plains | 
| The Irish brought the railways there | 
| Blazing the trails of America | 
| Far away from the bitter sea | 
| From the gold mines to the coal mines | 
| Up and down the cattle trails | 
| They made their way all over the land | 
| And found a home all over the land | 
| All over the land | 
| Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, | 
| New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, | 
| Nova Scotia, Tennessee, and Kentucky | 
| All over, all over | 
| Buffalo to Boston, Washington, Wyoming, | 
| Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Delaware, | 
| Don’t forget Connecticut | 
| All over, all over | 
| Colorado and Chicago, Ohio, Illinois, | 
| Maryland, Newfoundland, Barrow, and Rhode Island | 
| All over, all over | 
| Thank God for America | 
| For your country and your fertile shores | 
| Thank God for America | 
| For we love this land forever more | 
| Each city, each county, all the wonders that we see | 
| We’re all part of America | 
| It’s a land that’s part of you and me | 
| Thank God for America |