This Is Worth Fighting For
Words & Music by Edgar De Lange & Sam H. Stept
Published 1942

[voice]
This is the land where I was born
Not so long ago,
This is the land that's troubled now
with worry and with woe;
There was a question pounding my brain:
what to do, what to do,
when out of a dream, the answer came into view.

[refrain]
I saw a peaceful old valley
with a carpet of corn for a floor
This Is Worth Fighting For;
I saw a little old cabin
And the river that flowed by the door
And I heard a voice within me whisper
This Is Worth Fighting For.
Didn't I build that cabin?
Didn't I plant that corn?
Didn't my folks before me
Fight for this country before I was born?
I gathered y loved ones around me
And I gazed at each face I adore
Then I heard that voice within me thunder
This Is Worth Fighting For.
And I heard a voice within me whisper