Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
arranged by Roy Ringwald, music by Irving Berlin
from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Performed live by The Colorado Choir on March 11, 2023 at our Music of America concert

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Lyrics:

Emma Lazarus wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!