Lyrics:
Wake up america
Be a good american
Buy american
Pledge your next car to be american
Oh what a bunch of shit
Nazi propaganda
Thanks to crap like
Czolgosz, working man
Born in the middle of Michigan
Woke with a thought
And away he ran
To the Pan-American Exposition
In Buffalo
In Buffalo
heterosexual! homosexual! all
Want to get some. democrat! republican! they putting that work
In, aryan nation! 5% nation! native american wants division.
Man's
He used to be too nice to you
Now he's got nothing left to lose
He's got a whole new attitude
And he's got rare American shoes
It isn't hard to do
Guys like us, we had it bad.
An average American superhero,
Rolled out of bed.
Read the sports page,
Lost his bet.
Pulls up his jeans
a little slice of that big ol' American pie
Yeah, everybody's gotta grow up sometime
Why can't I?
The ol' Lone Ranger bought an RV park
Somewhere in
the Great Lakes
And he felt the cold wind bite
Going where I can't be found
And I won't be coming 'round
No, I'm an American on the Canadian Shield
Travel into another country and you'll find
Americans aren't looked on so kind
This country was founded upon common need
Now the foundation is
I'd rather go blind
For speaking my mind
Or use it just like a gag
So raise it in anger
Just let it hang
American Gangster Time
He sits back
all the kids
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in Hollywood
Nearly two million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system,
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lion or tiger, ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Everybody is as happy
Washington's the President
Every American experiment sets a precedent
Not so fast, someone came along to resist him
Pissed him off until we had a two-party
build an all American amusement park there
They've got surfing, too
Boom goes London
And boom Paris
More room for you
And more room for me
L made an American squirm
And it feel so right
On the screen was the musical war
Deep deep into the night
Yes I was spreading
In the wonderful
build an all American amusement park there
They've got surfing, too
Boom goes London
And boom Paris
More room for you
And more room for me
I made an American squirm
And it feel so right
On the screen was the musical war
Deep deep into the night
Yes i was spreading
In the wonderful
Mm mm
The American dream, mmm mmm
And you know what I mean ah, bam bam
Radio killa, ah
Should beat the track up like gorilla
I
Yeah we up in
day
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lions or tigers, ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev'rybody is
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lion or tiger, ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Everybody is as happy
us?
Are you an American?
Am I an American?
I'm just an Irish, Jewish, Italian,
French and English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Polish,
Scotch,
autograph)
(Wow, I love you, I have all your albums, it's Mr. Nigga, I love him)
They stay on nigga patrol on American roads
And when you travel abroad,
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't want to hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an all American amusement park
Draft Dodger Rag
Phil Ochs
Written by Phil Ochs
Oh, I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator
And that's the day I woke up
From the American dream
What are you supposed to do
When the God you're prayin' to
Up and goes missin'?
Leaves a trail
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