America

Our 5th blog post was to become the teacher and create a lesson plan for other students about the books we read. I chose to do Jason's lesson plan, which was to research about the book, "The Tortilla Curtain," and then rewrite a song explaining Mexican Immigration to the US. I rewrote Paul Simon's, "America." 

“Just give me a week or two and we’ll both be out of here.”

“and you’ll have ten dresses, a whole closet full” 

So we left our life in Mexico as we packed our bags.

And we walked off to look for America

“Rosa," I said as I paid the man called Coyote

America seems like a dream to me now

It took two weeks to cross that unfenced Cali line

I’ve come to look for America

Owning our own house

We’ll go from rags to riches

Then she turned to me and said we’ll be living the dream

I said “I can see our future right there past the border.” 

210 mile stretch of Sonoran Desert 

We walked through the night without a rest

The heat and dehydration, we almost turned around

Then we heard the cars on the interstate

“Things were good for a while,” though I knew it wouldn’t last

“There was no more work here. Not now, not ever” 

I thought I knew what I wanted, not anymore

They’ve all come to look for America

All come to look for America

All come to look for America