God Bless The USA

[Howdoulikemenow333]

God Bless The USA...... Lee GreenWood I love that song everytime I hear it I am thankfull to be living in a land where it is free,we can do almost anything we want, God Bless The USA.....

[Courtnee]

I love that song,too. I love America I just don't like the man running it.
One year in choir I sang that song as a solo.

[ABlairican Pie]

Originally Posted by alaskaboy

God Bless The USA...... Lee GreenWood I love that song everytime I hear it I am thankfull to be living in a land where it is free,we can do almost anything we want, God Bless The USA.....

Anything that the Patriot Act allows us to do, which is...not much. But God Bless the USA, anyway!

[TripperFan]

Its a beautiful song. I got choked up every time I heard it the past few years and was the big reason I bought the American Idol (3?) CD.


I swear sometimes I was born in the wrong geography!

[musicradio77]

Originally Posted by alaskaboy

God Bless The USA...... Lee GreenWood I love that song everytime I hear it I am thankfull to be living in a land where it is free,we can do almost anything we want, God Bless The USA.....

I love that song by Lee Greenwood. "God Bless the USA" was one of my favorite patriotic song out of the other songs like "1812 Overture", "Born in the USA", "Star-Spangled Banner" and the others about America.

[TripperFan]

Originally Posted by musicradio77

I love that song by Lee Greenwood. "God Bless the USA" was one of my favorite patriotic song out of the other songs like "1812 Overture", "Born in the USA", "Star-Spangled Banner" and the others about America.

Actually "Born In The U.S.A." is a slam on America - check out the lyrics. Ronald Reagan had wanted to use it for his run for president until someone pointed that out to him.

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

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.

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

Born in the U.S.A.
I was 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.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. 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

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A

[AKA]

Originally Posted by TripperFan

Actually "Born In The U.S.A." is a slam on America - check out the lyrics. Ronald Reagan had wanted to use it for his run for president until someone pointed that out to him.

I wouldn't exactly call it a "slam" on America, either. It's really about hardships Vietnam vets were facing upon their return to the United States.

But it never ceases to amaze me how little attention is paid to the lyrics of that song (save, of course, for the chorus). Many people tend to think of it as a patriotic ode to being an American.

[Dude111]

I love that song also and it makes me sad knowing our country is so divided now...... People are so mean!!!!!!!

2020 was the turning point and it doesnt seem to be getting better


Here is that song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6g13usoqo