[narrator reading]
♪ My grandmother came from Russia ♪
♪ A satchel on her knee ♪
♪ My grandfather had his father's cap ♪
♪ He brought from Italy ♪
♪ They'd heard about a country ♪
♪ Where life might let them win ♪
♪ They paid the fare to America ♪
♪ And there they melted in ♪
♪ Lovely Lady Liberty ♪
♪ With her book of recipes ♪
♪ And the finest one she's got ♪
♪ Is the Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
[boy] America was founded by the English.
[girl] But also by the Germans,
Dutch, and French.
[boy 2] The principle still sticks--
Our heritage is mixed.
[together] So any kid
could be the president.
♪ You simply melt right in ♪
♪ It doesn't matter what your skin ♪
♪ It doesn't matter where you're from ♪
♪ Or your religion you jump right in ♪
♪ To the Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ Ooh, what a stew red, white, and blue ♪
♪ America was the new world ♪
♪ And Europe was the old ♪
♪ America was the land of hope ♪
♪ Or so the legend told ♪
♪ On steamboats by the millions ♪
♪ In search of honest pay ♪
♪ Those 19th century immigrants sailed ♪
♪ To reach the U.S.A. ♪
♪ Lovely Lady Liberty ♪
♪ With her book of recipes ♪
♪ And the finest one she's got ♪
♪ Is the Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ What good ingredients
Liberty and immigrants ♪
♪ They brought their country's customs ♪
♪ Their language and their ways ♪
♪ They filled the factories
Tilled the soil ♪
♪ Helped build the U.S.A. ♪
♪ Go on and ask your grandma ♪
♪ Hear what she has to tell ♪
♪ How great to be American ♪
♪ And something else as well ♪
♪ Lovely Lady Liberty ♪
♪ With her book of recipes ♪
♪ And the finest one she's got ♪
♪ Is the Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
♪ The Great American Melting Pot ♪
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03x06 - The Great American Melting Pot
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Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.
Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.