The Great American Melting Pot (Schoolhouse Rock! self-parody)

Starring the Peanuts gang

Credits

 * Subject: Immigration/Diversity
 * Performed by Lori Lieberman
 * Music and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
 * Directed by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi
 * Written by Tony Geiss; Judy Freudberg; Linda Woolverton

Song Lyrics
My grandmother came from Russia
 * Lori Lieberman

A satchel on her knee

My grandfather had his father's cap

He brought from Italy

They'd heard about the 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

(spoken) America was founded by the English.
 * Charlie Brown

(spoken) But also by the Germans, Dutch, and French.
 * Lucy van Pelt

(spoken) The principle still sticks: Our heritage is mixed.
 * Schroeder

(spoken) So anyone could be the president.
 * Peanuts gang

You simply melt right in
 * Lori Lieberman and Peanuts gang

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

The Great American Melting Pot

Ooh, what a stew
 * Lori Lieberman

Red, and 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
 * Lori Lieberman and Peanuts gang

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
 * Lori Lieberman

Liberty and immigrants

They brought the 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 you grandma

Hear what she has to tell

How great to be American

And something else as well

Lovely Lady Liberty
 * Lori Lieberman and Peanuts gang

With her book of recipes

And the finest one she's got

Is the Great American Melting Pot

The Great American Melting Pot (repeat x6)