America (A Mouse's Dream)
Ringo Starr

By Roger Brown

IF YOU'RE GONNA BE FAMOUS,
I KNOW JUST WHERE YOU SHOULD BE.
STEPPIN' OUT ON A STAGE SOMEWHERE
IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.

AND IF YOU'RE GONNA BE BIG TIME,
BIGGER THAN ANY MOUSE SHORT SIZE.
YOU OUGHT TO BE IN AMERICA
AND I AM GONNA TELL YOU WHY.

IN AMERICA YOU CAN STEAL THE HEARTS,
SEE SIGHTS THAT'S YET UNSEEN.
THEY'LL MAKE YOU FAMOUS OVERNIGHT
IN AMERICA, A MOUSE'S DREAM.

ME FATHER LEARNED A LOT IN LONDON,
AND ONE DAY HE TOLD ME, SON,
IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHERE THE STARS ARE BORN,
WELL, I, I CAN TELL YOU WHERE IT'S DONE.

NOW I'M SIMPLY ORDINARY,
SO I MAY BE WHERE I MAY BE.
BUT THERE'S JUST ONE PLACE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
I KNOW FOR A MOUSE LIKE YOU TO BE.

AND THAT'S AMERICA WHERE YOU WILL FIND
THE GRASS OF GREENER GREEN.
THE FINE YOU'LL FIND IS SUPER FINE
IN AMERICA, A MOUSE'S DREAM.

JUST IMAGINE NEW YORK CITY,
JUST IMAGINE OLD BROADWAY.
DON'T YOU WISH THAT YOU WERE THERE RIGHT NOW?
DON'T YOU WISH THAT YOU WERE ON YOUR WAY?

TO AMERICA WHERE THE STREETS ARE OF GOLD,
ALTHOUGH I'VE NEVER BEEN
I'M SURE IT'S TRUE, 'CAUSE I'VE BEEN TOLD,
AMERICA'S A MOUSE'S DREAM.

DIALOG:

A WAITER IN A WHITE JACKET CAME HURTLING TOWARDS HIM, HE WAS ABOUT TO THREAD ON SCOUSE WHEN SCOUSE NOTICED THAT THE DOOR BESIDE HIM WAS SLIGHTLY OPEN. HE DODGED INSIDE AND STOOD STILL IN THE ROOM FOR A MOMENT.

THAT WAS A NARROW SQUEAK!
IN A LARGE BED, COVERED BY A SILK QUILT, PROPPED UP AGAINST SATIN PILLOWS, SURROUNDED BY CRAYONS AND PIECES OF PAPER, DOLLS, STUFFED ANIMALS, SAT A SMALL GIRL.
OH, GOOD! YOU CAN TALK!
DOESN'T IT SURPRISE YOU?
NO, ALL THE ANIMALS IN MY DREAMS SPEAK.
I'M NOT A DREAM, I'M SCOUSE THE MOUSE. I'M GOING TO BE FAMOUS! I CAN TALK, I CAN SING, I LEARNT IT FROM THE TELLY.
YOU'RE A DREAM! YOU'RE A DREAM! YOU'RE A DREAM!


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  'I've Got Blisters...'   "Blue, Turning Grey Over You"   $15 Draw   A Dose Of Rock 'N' Roll   A Dose Of Rock'N'Roll   A Love Bizarre   A Man Like Me   A Mouse Like Me   A Salty Dog   Act Naturally   Act Naturally (All Starr Band Version)   Act Naturally [DVD]   Act Naturally [Live]   After All These Years   Alibi   All by Myself   All In The Name Of Love   All the Young Dudes   American Woman   Anthem   As Far As We Can Go   Ask Louey   At My Front Door   Attention   Attention [Radio Edit]   Baby I Love Your Way   Back By Boogaloo   Back Off Boogaloo   Back Off Boogaloo (Version 2)   Back Off Boogaloo (Version Two)   Back Off Boogaloo [DVD]   Bad Boy   Bamboula   Bang the Drum All Day   Be My Baby   Beaucoups Of Blues   Black Maria   Blindman   Blink   Blue Christmas   Blue Turning Grey over You   Blue, Turning Grey Over You   Boat Ride   Boys   Boys [DVD]   Boys [Live]   Brandy   Bridges   Bye Bye Blackbird   Call Me   Can She Do It Like She Dances   Can't Do It Wrong   Choose Love   Choose Love [DVD]   Christmas Eve   Christmas Time Is Here Again   Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On   Come on Christmas, Come on Christmas   Confirmation   Coochy Coochy   Coochy Coochy (Long Version)   Coochy Coochy [*]   Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love)   Count Down Meets Merlin And Amber   Cryin'   Daybreak   Dead Giveaway   Dear Santa   Desperado   Devil Woman   Don't Be Cruel   Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go   Don't Go Where The Roads Don't Go   Don't Hang Up   Don't Know A Thing About Love   Don't Mean Nothin   Don't Pass Me By   Dont Hang Up   Dose Of Rock N Roll   Down   Down and Out   Down and Out [*]   Dream   Dream Weaver [Live]   Drift Away   Drowning In The Sea Of Love   Drumming Is My Madness   Early 1970   Early 1970 [*]   Easy For Me   Elizabeth Reigns   Elizabeth Reigns [Album Track][Version]   English Garden   English Garden [Album Track][Version]   Everlasting Love   Everybody Wants You   Everybody's In A Hurry But Me   Everyday   Everyone Wins   Eye to Eye   Eye to Eye [Album Track][Version]   Eye to Eye [DVD]   Fading In And Out   Fading In Fading Out   Fading in Fading Out [DVD]   Fastest Growing Heartache In The West   Fill In The Blanks   For Love   Frankenstein, Merlin And The Operation   Frankentstein, Merlin And The Operation   Free Drinks   Free Drinks [Enhanced Stereo][Multimedia Track]   Free Ride   Free Ride [Live]   Gave It All Up   Girls Talk   Give a Little Bit   Give It A Try   Give Me Back The Beat   Give Me Back the Beat [DVD]   Give Me Back the Beat [Enhanced Stereo][Multimedia...   Glamorous Life   Going Down   Golden Blunders   Gone Are The Days   Good News   Goodnight Vienna   Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)   Groovin'   Gypsies In Flight   Hand Gun Promos   Hard Times   Hard To Be True   Hard to Be True [DVD]   Harry s Song   Harry's Song   Have I Told You Lately   Have I Told You Lately That I Love You   Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?   Have You Seen My Baby   Have You Seen My Baby (Hold On)   Heart on My Sleeve   Hey Baby   Hey! 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World (Live)   What Love Wants to Be   Where Did Our Love Go   Whispering Grass   Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)   White Christmas   Who Can It Be Now [Live]   Who Needs A Heart   Who's Your Daddy   Will It Go Round in Circles   Wine, Women And Loud Happy Songs   Wings   Winter Wonderland   With A Little Help From My Friends   With a Little Help from My Friends (Reprise)   With A Little Help From My Friends [Live]   With A Little Hope From My Friends   Without Her   Without Understanding   Without You   Woman Of The Night   Wonderful   Wrack My Brain   Write One for Me   Wrong All the Time   Y Not   Yellow Submarine   Yellow Submarine [Instrumental]   Yellow Submarine [Live]   You Always Hurt The One You Love   You And Me   You And Me (Babe)   You Belong To Me   You Bring The Party Down   You Can't Fight Lightning   You Don't Know Me At All   You Never Know   You Never Know (From The Soundtrack Of The Movie C   You're 16 (You're Beautiful And You're Mine)   You're Sixteen   You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine)   You've Got A Nice Way

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