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We got some trouble in our own back yard. |
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Things are are kinda tough, times are kinda hard. |
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Got a lot of people livin' out in the street, people goin' hungry without nothin' to eat, and in this land of plenty, this souldn't be goin' on. |
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We got enough for everybody we just gonna have to pass it along. |
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Well I'm glad about the fall of communism, |
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I'm glad about the |
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Berlin wall, and |
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I like seein' old |
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Saddam bite the dust, in fact |
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I'm glad about it all. |
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And I believe in helping everybody, but when it comes to all them foreign loans, |
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I think we oughta remember that charity begins at home. |
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Yes it starts right now in (America, America,) |
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I know the sun is risin' on a better day. (America, America,) we got the power and we know the way. (America, America,) well let me say a few words about the |
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Red, White, and |
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Blue. (America, America,) |
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I know you're gonna do it |
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I believe in you. |
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Now I been tryin' to figure this out, but there's somethin' that |
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I just don't know. |
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How can you make things better when you take our jobs, and send 'um down to |
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Mexico? And then there was this big shot, from the land of the risin' sun. |
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He said the workin' people in |
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America were lazy and dumb. |
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Well let me tell you somethin' |
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Jack. The next time |
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I go on a shopping trip, and take somethin' off of the rack, if it don't say, "Made in the U.S.A." |
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I'm just gonna put it back. |
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We can't leave it to the politicians, cause they don't do nothin' but talk, and it's we the people that are gonna have to walk the walk. |
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And we can do it right now in (America, America,) hey |
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I know the sun is risin' on a better day. (America, America,) yeah we got the power and we know the way. (America, America,) now let me say a few words about the |
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Red, White, and |
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Blue. (America, America,) |
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I know you're gonna do it |
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I believe in you. |
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Well we got the best dang farmers in the whole wide world. |
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The fastest horses and the prettiest girls. |
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We got the |
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Army, the |
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Navy, Air |
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Force, and |
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Marines, the mightiest fightin' force the world's ever seen. |
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We the kinda people that can get things done, |
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We're servin' notice that we're still number one. |
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We got the nerve (We got the nerve.), we got the will, (We got the will.), we are all together cause you know that we are still. (America, America,) well |
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I know the sun is risin' it's a risin' on a better day. (America, America,) hey, hey we got the power and we know the way. (America, America,) now let me say a few words about the |
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Red, White, and |
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Blue. (America, America,) cause |
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I believe in you. |
