We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home, Oh America we come and ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home, Oh America we come and ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum.

At the Rio Grand River we stand, ten thousand in our band.
And one day soon we'll be, a million in this land.
We wonder what you'll do, the day we ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home, Oh America we come and ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum.

We are the down-and-outs, here at the Desert that separates the 2 lands.
And all of the USA waits, to see what we're about.
The world will change someday; We'll make it work someway.
The day we come to stay, with you.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home.
We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home.
The refugees.
Without a home.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home.
We are the strangers here, the refugees.
We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home, Oh America we come and ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum.

We are the strangers here, the refugees the women and men.
Without a home, Oh America we come and ask of you.
Asylum. Asylum. Asylum. Asylum.