Bill’s words, from his 2016 TEDx performance:
I wrote it in about 2006. I noticed America was becoming more and more downtrodden, on itself. And I was used to hearing anti-American sentiment around the world from travelling around, playing music for 25 years… but when I got back to America, and hea...
America!
America!
America!
America!
You are so grand and golden
Oh I wish I was deep in America tonight
America!
America!
I watch David Letterman in Australia
America!
You are so grand and golden
I wish I was on the next flight
To America!
Captain Kristofferson!
Buck Sergeant Newbury!
Leatherneck Jones!
Sergeant Cash!
What an Army!
What an Air Force!
What a Marines!
America!
I never served my country
America!
Afghanistan!
Vietnam!
Iran!
Native Americon!
America!
Well, everyone's allowed a past they don't care to mention
America!
America!
Well, it's hard to rouse a hog in Delta
And it can get tense around the Bible Belt
America!
America!
The lucky suckle teat
Others chaw pig knuckle meat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough t'eat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough teat
Ain't enough t'eat
In America!
America!
America!
America!
America! was written by Bill Callahan.
America! was produced by Bill Callahan.
Bill Callahan released America! on Tue Apr 05 2011.