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Can you imagine how crowded Europe would be today if millions of their poor did not move to North America. All Europe and all modern day Americans should thank Britain for being the most successful colonisers the world has ever seen. There is a reason Americans speak English and not German, Polish, Italian,Yiddish or Russian.

Superb !

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Beautifully done...very nice voiceover and lovely background soundtrack!

Good work.

Brings back some memories. I grew up in Shipley and my grandparents lived in Saltaire. Never Liked Bradford or Shipley much but Saltaire was a pleasant place: A little oasis amid the grim surroundings of the industrial North West.

So well done just beautiful

A Masterpiece without equal

I've been trying to find a copy of this book online, but it seems to have gone out of print. Any idea where I might find one. Thank you!

A beautiful song dedicated to John Lennon by Neil Sedaka. I always loved it because of that, and also it makes me think of my grandparents and dad who also were immigrants so very long ago......I miss them all : (((((

gives me a similar feeling to SUFJAN STEVENS- "CHICAGO". go check it and tell me what y'all think.

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Neil wrote this for John Lennon during his green card problems .......miss ol Johnny Ace

Neil wrote this song for John Lennon. At the time, paranoid Hoover and Tricky Dicky Nixon @ others were harrasing John for being a Peace Nick and wanting to help make this a better world. They didn't like people who dared to shake up the Status Quo. In the end, The Blue Meanies lost and Peace won!

He dedicated it to John Lennon, so I heard.

This song is highly offensive. From the point of view of the people whose lands were conquered by the most brutal genocide in history, talking about the beacon of liberty and other such vile propaganda is itself vile.

Triumph of capital over taste. This house is my bete noir.

This song still gives me a lump in my throat and still loving and listening to it in June 2020.

If you are listening to this, you must email, or whatever app, send it your friends and relatives. We can only survive as the nation of nations.

This song Neil Sedaka, wrote it to John Lennon, in suport to his strugle to get the greend card

Love Saltaire......and it's so underated

Neil Sedaka's least 'popular' song is his opus. A masterpiece. Among my favourite songs EVER! It gets truer by the year in more and more countries. "To find they've closed the door. They don't want him any more. There isn't any more to go around" ...

Ditto to D Berube's comment from 2 years ago, "This song holds more significance now more than ever before!!"

Never, in the forty-five years since he wrote and recorded this, has this song been as important and topical as it is today.

If you are old enough to remember the first wave--or to have parents who could--, then you will be aware that those immigrants were mainly empathetically-minded Europeans who harbored the same deep love of freedom that imbued our founding Europe-derived fathers. That is, the Western mindset inspired and drove that first nation-refining influx of immigrants-the ones this song celebrates. The current unstanched flow from the wounds that pock-mark the Middle East and its African environs--notice the continent of Asia is for the most part not urging its poor nor other citizens into mass emigration mode--; the current devil-may-care law-ignoring push of those immigrants has far less to do with being Here and conforming to a 'better life' than simply getting out of There at whatever the cost. So, I applaud the recognition in this song of the decline of the awareness of the stronger Sitz-im-Leben that described the initial quest to be in the same boat as are we Americans who actually desire to work to make a better life, and warn against the current millions who simply want to float along in a life preserver. I dare say that a theoretical second wave of non-Muslim European immigration would be, as it was, in dire contrast to the current situation, and would to me actually be a welcome relief.

This should be played in front of Congress. And every morning before our current president had his breakfast

Now he arrives with his hopes and his heart set on miracles. Come to marry his fortune with a hand full of promises. To find they’ve closed the door, They don’t want him anymore. “There isn’t anymore to go around.” There was a time when strangers were welcome here ...

This man is a legend. This song is significant all over the world. Happy 80 th Birthday Mr Sedaka .Live long

This song is powerful beyond words. All my grandparents came through Ellis Island from Northern Italy, desperate for a better life. My maternal nonna more than commented that "there is no place like here", and even when she would return from her many trips back to the old country, she said she wanted to "kiss the ground" when she returned to the USA.

I LOVE this song.... thankyou for uploading it ~

I think of my maternal Grandparents and paternal Grandmother who came here at the turn of the century.They came and made something out of their lives

Nice presentation thank you. I used to run up to the trig point and down again from Flasby Hall when it was a prep school back in the 60s. Often it was snowy like in your video but we had to wear T shirts shorts and gym shoes. How none of us got exposure or worse is a mystery.

My dad arrived in New York from England on the Gypsum Queen Cargo Ship then caught a train to Toronto ,Canada (thanks Dad)

impressive

Send this to Trump! He needs to be impeached! GOP is a disgrace!

But they where legal immigrants.

So much confusion- Sedaka wrote it re/for John Lennon when authorities were trying to stop him living in the USA. By a multimillionaire for another multimillionaire- not really for the downtrodden poor of the world as seen in the film here.

"To find they closed the door; they don't want you anymore. There isn't anymore to go around." The motto of Trump and his deplorables.

Someone RE RELEASE this please.

Viva America together

While the immigrants were WASP, no problem. Comes the next immigrants wave of latins, Asians and all non-white and all of a sudden immigrants are a problem!

There was a time strangers came here to become Americans.

i had this record on a 45 when it first came out, played it over and over and over. i loved this beautiful song and it's beautiful message. but those were immigrants, not refugees, nor terrorists. praise JESUS CHRIST. JESUS IS GOD!! Make America Great Again.

there was a time when strangers were welcome here

those immigrant ts were different poor folk who served as Cannon fodder in these useless wars !!!!

Trump would be nothing if these immigrants did, t make the USA so great

You silly people...stop advertising your ignorance and all you don't know. Most comments here are by knee-jerk sheep, following what other self-serving union bosses order you to do. When did Americans stop thinking for themselves, and coming to their own conclusions? Donald Trump is neither a moron nor anti-immigrant, and if any of you malcontents would have an ounce of independent thought, you'd understand this. You nay Sayers are becoming quite tedious. Or, better put, have become a bunch of Dullards.

SO poignant. Makes me ferklempt. Thank you Neil Sedaka (music) and Phil Cody (lyrics).

..THEY ARENT IMMIGRANTS ANYMORE...THEY ARE ILLEGALS.....'THERE ISNT ANYMORE TO GO AROUND"