When Everyone Wore Hats – Daniel Amos – letras

Here’s to the long-lost world ofChain-smoking dreamersWar and baseball heroesTicker tape and streamers,Cocktail drinkers, Bible believersWhen light was still filling up aNew York riverThey knew the grace of traditionPossessed a love of decorumShook the hand of convictionNo one complained then of boredomWhen everyone wore hatsThey dreamed of ocean voyagesBelieved in true romanceFound their hearts and voicesHere’s to the long lost hopes ofThose mothers and fathersOf rags to richesOf style and mannersTo the American dream in aPledge to honorPromises made to theirSons and daughtersThrew off the chains of depressionBuilt up the arms of aggressionLeft us a mixed impressionSome died before they learned their lessonWhen everyone wore hatsIn the land of immigrants and pilgrimsThe world came rolling off their backsAnd landed on their children’sThey knew the grace of traditionPossessed a love of decorumShook the hand of convictionNo one complained then of boredomWhen everyone wore hatsAnd innocence found simple pleasuresThey built the cities, drew the mapsWith clues to find their buried treasuresWhen everyone wore hatsAnd handed down their pride and prejudiceThey dropped good fortune in our lapsWe traded it for vice and avariceWhen everyone wore hatsWould-be kings with ragged crownsThey say the style is coming backWhat’s out-of-fashion comes aroundUncertain where the road was leadingBut trusting God was on their sideThey traced the moral chain of beingAnd filmed it all in black and whiteAnd everyone wore hats…