“All American Made” is a song from Price and Ivey’s days in the more folk-rock oriented band Buffalo Clover. Like many of their songs from that time, it takes a class-conscious view of the world to focus on how powerful classes, such as the capitalist and political classes, both disadvantage the wor...
I woke up from a movie I immediately forgot
Got a heartache on the bottom and a headache on the top
The part of me that hurts the worst is the one I just can't spot
And it's all American made
Through everywhere I go, somebody puts me in the dirt
And everything I say, somebody says they said it first
But I don't need ten million, baby, just give me one that works
It's all American made
(In some live versions)
Well all the Midwest farms are turning into plastic homes
And my uncle started drinking when the bank denied the loan
But now it's liver failure and there’s mad cows being cloned
And it’s all American made
I have been all over but I can't help feeling stuck
Something in my bloodline or something in my gut
Says go to California in a rusted pickup truck
That's all American made
1987 and I didn't know it then
Reagan was selling weapons to the leaders of Iran
And it won't be the first time and, baby, it won't be the end
They were all American made
But I was just a child unaware of the effects
Raised on sports and Jesus and all the usual suspects
So tell me, Mr. Petty, what do you think will happen next
That's all American made
I wonder if the president gets much sleep at night
And if the folks on welfare are making it alright
I'm dreaming of that highway that stretches out of sight
That's all American made
That's all American made
It's all, it's all American made
All American Made was written by Jeremy Ivey & Margo Price.
All American Made was produced by Margo Price & Matt Ross-Spang & Alex Munoz & Jeremy Ivey.
Margo Price released All American Made on Fri Oct 20 2017.
We actually wrote that song during the Obama administration,” says Price, “but it really altered meaning for me on the day Trump was elected. That song embodies the good and the bad in the ugly in this country. America is so beautiful to me, but it’s in a really hard spot right now. I feel like I wa...
She said during her Fresh Air interview in November 2017 that the lyric was directed at Tom Petty. Makes it all the more tragic that he died just a couple weeks before the album came out.