Two Hundred Fifty Strong

[Verse 1]

Ocean spray and heavy timber

Long before the flags were sewn

Silent shadows in the canyon

Claiming land to call our own

Tending maze and winter wheat

Natives offered hands so steady

Making life from rocky earth

When the storm was getting ready

[Pre-Chorus]

Ancient trees and open plains

Writing names in river silt

Finding strength through every winter

Seeing how the dream was built

[Chorus]

We are America

A legacy of scars and song

forged in fire through the nights

We grew two hundred fifty years strong

Red white and blue

The colors that we carry through

from the first step on the shore

To the heavy slamming of the door

Two hundred fifty strong

[Verse 2]

Through the smoke of revolutions

Musket balls and bitter pride

Lines are drawn across the dirt

with no place for us to hide

Blight may fall upon the grain

yet the healing finds a way

Banding together for the light

at the breaking of the day

[Pre-Chorus]

Common dirt and golden veins

running through the mountain passes

Holding on to what is real

In the mirrors and the glasses

[Chorus]

We are America

A legacy of scars and song

Forged in fire through the nights

We grew two hundred fifty years strong

Red white and blue

The colors that we carry through

From the first step on the shore

To the heavy slamming of the door

Two hundred fifty strong

[Bridge]

Pilgrims walking for a purpose

Hand in hand with local tribes

Thick and thin we keep on moving

another two hundred and fifty years

We are America.

[Chorus]

We are America

A legacy of scars and song

Forged in fire through the nights

We grew two hundred fifty years strong

Red white and blue

The colors that we carry through

From the first step on the shore

To the heavy slamming of the door

Two hundred fifty years