Here In America
Album: Here In America
By: The Whale
By: The Whale
Duration
3:47
Genres
Description
Zydeco flavored, foot stompin Roots Rock with a side of gumbo. The first song I ever wrote and title song of my new CD. Featuring, yours truly, The Whale vocals and guitar; Lisa Haley - violin; Doug Legacy - accordion; Doug Riggs - vocal harmony; J.C. Thomas - bass and Cengiz Baysal - drums.
Lyrics
Here In America Words & Music by The Whale, © 2012 Michael McCormack / Fiat Lux All Rights Reserved. ASCAP Here In America - we’ve got lots of cars and gasoline Here In America - just like movies on the silver screen Here In America - people try to keep the city clean Here In America - urban decay’s tearing at the seams We’ve gotten out of harmony with life my love We don’t have no room for all this push and shove And some of our convictions are leading us astray Get your ship together man, yeah try and find the way We are one all US on our way home Here In America - folk’s aint known for what they’re doing good Here In America - bullets fly all through the neighborhood Here In America - fingers point but not to where they should Here In America -things don’t grow the way they really could We’ve gotten out of harmony with life my love There’s so many things that we must rise above And though our indiscretions are standing in the way Better get a grip on it before it’s time to pay We are one all US on our way home Here In America - rich folks like to pay their taxes – yeah Here In America - other folks they live in shacks – as though Here In America - folks don’t know just what the facts is though Here In America - we all like to grind our axes We’re out on the highway of life my friends And what happens next, well that just depends The sum of our positions we can’t righteously defend The truth is reality don’t let yours be pretend We are one all US on our way home Yeah we’re going home, Bye bye, see you later On our way home today! Oh, welcome to America.
