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"'Merican" by the Descendents
"We flipped our finger to the King of England,
Stole our country from the Indians.
With God on our side and guns in our hands,
We took it for our own.
A nation dedicated to liberty,
Justice, and equality.
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me.
The sickest joke I know.
"I come from the land of Ben Franklin,
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman.
Otis Redding, Ellington.
The country that I love.
But it's a land of the slaves and the Ku Klux Klan,
Haymarket Riot and the Great Depression.
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam.
The sickest joke I know.
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am:
Just another stupid American.
You don't wanna listen,
You don't wanna understand.
So finish up your drink and go home.
"I'm proud and ashamed
Every Fourth of July.
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride.
"Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns.
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone.
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun.
Straight to Hell we go........"
"We flipped our finger to the King of England,
Stole our country from the Indians.
With God on our side and guns in our hands,
We took it for our own.
A nation dedicated to liberty,
Justice, and equality.
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me.
The sickest joke I know.
"I come from the land of Ben Franklin,
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman.
Otis Redding, Ellington.
The country that I love.
But it's a land of the slaves and the Ku Klux Klan,
Haymarket Riot and the Great Depression.
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam.
The sickest joke I know.
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am:
Just another stupid American.
You don't wanna listen,
You don't wanna understand.
So finish up your drink and go home.
"I'm proud and ashamed
Every Fourth of July.
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride.
"Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns.
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone.
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun.
Straight to Hell we go........"