Story Behind The Song
This country...we its people... have been conditionalized in recent times to think that we are NOT fellow citizens. The irony of our diversity being exactly what makes us great seems completely lost. I wanted to write tune about who we are; not about who we disagree with, or worse. Therapeutic... Hopeful...a little bit of both?
Song Description
With a wave of 'patriotic' songs simply shouting a one-sided point of view (doesn't matter which side) I wanted to remind myself that we are still housed together ... all of us... in one great country.
| Song Length |
3:56 |
Genre |
Folk - Americana, Country - Americana |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Cheerful, Welcoming |
Subject |
Peace, Patriotic |
Lyrics
My father bought a station wagon back in 1966
Use to take us driving on a Sunday through the Delaware sticks
Yeah my sister and my brother riding in the back
Watching 20 miles of railroad track
Disappear behind them like a poem that was way too long
While my dad tapped on the steering wheel and whistled an American song
My cousins came from New York every summer and we'd all sleep in tents
Never saw my uncle without the pork pie hat on his head
Yeah he and my dad would talk late into the night
Wondering if the world would ever be right
While us kids were upstairs laughing and fighting and carrying on
Singing different verses of the same American song
Second jobs, second shifts
second chances just like this
And not a second left to hate
American dreams and American plans
electric guitars in American bands
We were already great
My friend Salma came here when she was just 18
She worked hard, loved her new country, helped her neighbor, caught the American Dream
Every now and then she puts sneakers on
Runs smiling down the street in some marathon
And every now and then she gets to go back home to Qaraoun, Lebenon
Where she sings them her own version of a brand new American song
Yeah, she singing an American Song
Sing, sing, sing an American Song
Sing, sing, sing an American Song
Sing, sing, sing an American Song
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