| 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
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| nothin’to eat,
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| 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, I’m glad about the
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| Berlin wall, and I like seein’old Saddam bite the dust, in fact I’m glad about
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| it all.
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| And I believe in helping everybody,
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| 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.
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| (America, America,) we got the power and we know the way.
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| (America, America,) well let me say a few words about the Red, White, and Blue.
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| (America, America,) I know you’re gonna do it I believe in you.
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| Now I been tryin’to figure this out, but there’s somethin’that I just don’t
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| know.
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| How can you make things better when you
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| take our jobs, and send 'um down to Mexico?
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| And then there was this big shot, from the land of the risin’sun.
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| He said the workin’people in America were lazy and dumb.
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| Well let me tell you somethin’Jack.
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| The next time I go on a shopping trip, and take somethin’off of the rack,
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| if it don’t say, «Made in the U.S.A."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,
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| 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,)
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| hey I know the sun is risin’on a better day.
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| (America, America,) yeah we got the power and we know the way.
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| (America, America,) now let me say a few words about the Red, White, and Blue.
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| (America, America,) I know you’re gonna do it 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. |
| We got the Army, the
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| Navy, Air Force, and Marines, the mightiest fightin’force the world’s ever seen.
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| We the kinda people that can get thins 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,
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| (We got the will.), we are all together cause you know that we are still.
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| (America, America,) well I know the sun is risin’it’s a risin’on a better day.
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| (America, America,) hey, hey we got the power and we know the way.
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| (America, America,) now let me say a few words about the Red, White, and Blue.
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| (America, America,) cause I believe in you. |