What’s a good song for America’s 250th birthday?

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

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

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.

[Dude111]

Wow thank you Opus and Dream!!!

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

[opus]

‘Living in America’. 2 versions


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


https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58?is=Y_Ib5sPbhqwcoziD


Co writer Dan Hartman released his version years later


https://youtu.be/M9aZjrp9Ij8?is=iQnRcH9xsRs4gbr6

[Dream Canteen]

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

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

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!

[opus]

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


https://youtu.be/j9P-CvqczKg?is=kY-SNFwKrXPa2wO9

[opus]

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

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


Who among us hasn’t chased down a hoodoo?

[Zoneboy]

[Dream Canteen]

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by stevea

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?

[MrCleveland]

Freedom by Sir Paul McCartney.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Dream Canteen

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

Even so, how about this one instead?

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

[Dream Canteen]

[GoldenTV]

Originally Posted by Dream Canteen

“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=sFUF...&start_radio=1

[ThisLittlePiggy]

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.