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‘America’ Neil Diamond

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I would say this song

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I see Dream posted that!


YOUR AWESOME DREAM.. WE THINK ALOT ALIKE BUDDY!!

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But I’ll start with a video.

‘America’ Neil Diamond

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Same title, different song. ‘America’, Simon and Garfunkel

Same title, different song. ‘America’, Simon and Garfunkel

I love both songs !:)

American Woman by the Guess Who. Just kidding. That was an Anti USA song. They were Canadians dogging out the United States ! :lol:

I love the song though and Lenny Kravitz version too.

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Two amazing, goosebump-inducing post-9/11 performances of “America the Beautiful.” Pick your poison.

Willie Nelson with a huge roster of stars too numerous to name, from the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon (9/21/01). Skip to 1:20 if you don’t want to listen to Clint Eastwood’s intro:
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Ray Charles at game 2 of the 2001 World Series (10/28/01):
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Same title, different song. ‘America’, Simon and GarfunkelI think I lke thier version better but they are both ok..

American Woman by the Guess Who. Just kidding. That was an Anti USA song. They were Canadians dogging out the United States ! :lol:

I love the song though and Lenny Kravitz version too.

Same with Bruce’s Born In The USA. People look at the title but don’t dig deeper into the lyrics.

Isnt his song about the USA Opus??

He was born in he US so he is singing about it...

Same with Bruce’s Born In The USA. People look at the title but don’t dig deeper into the lyrics.

Isnt hi song about the USA Opus??

He was born in he US so he is singing about it...

Exhibit A, your honor….

Isnt hi song about the USA Opus??

He was born in he US so he is singing about it...

“Born in the U.S.A.” is about a who comes home from Vietnam War to a country that has nothing for him. He can’t find steady work, gets turned away when he tries to get help from the government, finds himself in and out of jail, and watches the industrial town he grew up in offer no path forward — the same economic dead-end that pushed him toward enlisting in the first place.

What’s he’s left with is a kind of stuck, aimless anger: a veteran treated as disposable by the same country that drafted him, with no honor, no opportunity, and no real place to land back home. It’s that gap between the song’s defiant, anthemic sound and the bitterness of the actual story that trips people up. It’s not a flag-waving song; it’s closer to a howl of frustration wrapped in a fist-pumping chorus.

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Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said “Son if it was up to me”
Went down to see my VA man
He said “Son, don’t you understand”

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They’re still there, he’s all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I’m ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go

American Woman by the Guess Who. Just kidding. That was an Anti USA song. They were Canadians dogging out the United States ! :lol:

I love the song though and Lenny Kravitz version too.Both versions of that song are annoying for me. The Lenny Kravitz version has been a regular on Xfinity's independence day music station this year. I would replace it with Neil Diamond's America which has not been played at all this year, at least when I have had it on. The Simon and Garfunkel America at least has been played some.

Wow thank you Opus and Dream!!!

I guess I didnt really ever pay attn to the lyrics much...

‘Living in America’. 2 versions


First the more well known one from Rocky IV by James Brown

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Co writer Dan Hartman released his version years later

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American Woman by the Guess Who. Just kidding. That was an Anti USA song. They were Canadians dogging out the United States ! :lol:

I love the song though and Lenny Kravitz version too.

Never knew that about 'American Woman.' Now I've got 'No Time' for it lol!

‘Saturday In The Park’, Chicago (remember the lyrics). And tomorrow’s a Saturday!

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And some lyrics from ‘Born On The Bayou’, CCR

:music: And I can remember the fourth of July
Runnin' through the backwood bare
And I can still hear my ol' hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there :music:


Who among us hasn’t chased down a hoodoo?

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Never knew that about 'American Woman.' Now I've got 'No Time' for it lol!
You have to admit that the fuzz guitar riff in “American Woman” slaps hard.

Even so, how about this one instead?

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Freedom by Sir Paul McCartney.

You have to admit that the fuzz guitar riff in “American Woman” slaps hard.

Even so, how about this one instead?

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Yes, all kidding aside, it's absolutely a great song!

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“Born in the U.S.A.” is about a who comes home from Vietnam War to a country that has nothing for him. He can’t find steady work, gets turned away when he tries to get help from the government, finds himself in and out of jail, and watches the industrial town he grew up in offer no path forward — the same economic dead-end that pushed him toward enlisting in the first place.

What’s he’s left with is a kind of stuck, aimless anger: a veteran treated as disposable by the same country that drafted him, with no honor, no opportunity, and no real place to land back home. It’s that gap between the song’s defiant, anthemic sound and the bitterness of the actual story that trips people up. It’s not a flag-waving song; it’s closer to a howl of frustration wrapped in a fist-pumping chorus.

And of course Latinos have their own version of that song as it still ring true today :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUFw1GH6ic&list=RDsFUFw1GH6ic&start_radio=1

I heard Born In The USA blaring out of a guy's truck on the 4th and I wondered if he knew what the lyrics were about.

Small Town - John Mellencamp

I heard Born In The USA blaring out of a guy's truck on the 4th and I wondered if he knew what the lyrics were about.

Macy’s also used it last night during the fireworks display.

Macy’s also used it last night during the fireworks display.

Remember last year when they used “Fortunate Son” at Voldemort’s military parade last year? [Insert facepalm emoji here.]

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Macy’s also used it last night during the fireworks display.

Really? :lol:

Really? :lol:

Only the beginning

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The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up

Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A :music:

At the 1:37:50 mark

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Thanks.

God Bless America written by Irving Berlin. patriot::thumbsup:

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God bless you and the remaining members of the group always!!!

Holly (a girl who forever misses the lead singer of the song)

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