Love Like An Immigrant - Carrie Newcomer

Grandpa came over on the boat

His voice was thick with the old world and smoke

And ran in Chicago, 'til he met my grandma

The he moved to South Bend with his new 14 year old bride

So mamma and Louie and the rest of the family

Lived in a duplex next to my great grandma Baldoni

And believed in the hopes that can grow in a country

Even after my grandma and grandpa went their separate ways

He said «Love who you are, love what it’s meant

Live out your love like a new immigrant»

My dad drove a mile truck before he was 14

Came back from Korea in 1953

Met up with my mother, introduced by his sister

They put a dime in the juke box, took a turn on the dance floor

He said «Love who you are, love what it’s meant

Live out your love like a new immigrant»

So I came along after one and before another

Grew up on the Beatles and Jack Kennedy’s murder

I went looking for something in more than one country

Fell in love once or twice, broke my heart, but I’d try it again

So this is the new world, not the old world

Let me lie close beside you and whisper have you heard

The sound of the singing from some bright new country

And catch it’s been calling us home to it lately

So «love who you are, love what it’s meant

Live out your love like a new immigrant»