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

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But I’ll start with a video.

‘America’ Neil Diamond


https://youtu.be/bCQ-GjHfbYw?is=yIJqNGtIIVChWYqk

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[Dude111]

I would say this song

www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=Y3ziTSYyook


EDIT:

I see Dream posted that!


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

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Originally Posted by opus

Video not required to answer.


But I’ll start with a video.

‘America’ Neil Diamond


https://youtu.be/bCQ-GjHfbYw?is=yIJqNGtIIVChWYqk

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

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

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

I love both songs !

[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.

[Zoneboy]

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[Zoneboy]

[Dream Canteen]

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:


Ray Charles at game 2 of the 2001 World Series (10/28/01):

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by opus

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

I think I lke thier version better but they are both ok..

[opus]

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.

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

[Dude111]

Isnt his song about the USA Opus??

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

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Originally Posted by opus

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

Originally Posted by Dude111

Isnt hi song about the USA Opus??

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

Exhibit A, your honor….

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by Dude111

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.



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