Patriotic Music Thread - In Honor of the Fourth of July

grateful dead- us blues

Lots of country going to come up in this song.

I always blast: American Badass

Grateful Dead - US Blues

"Wave that flag, wave it wide and high"

Taken from YouTube:

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The first part of the video is a short film I found called “200.” It was made to be some sort of trippy propaganda in 1975 and was put out by the US Gov’t Information Agency for the bicentennial.

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simon and garfunkel- america

Band from when I was in HS:

American Revolution

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Was Heady and I's graduation song in HS

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A beautiful song whose lyrics were written during one of the darkest times of American History.

The Drifters - "Only In America" (1963)



This is a censored version of the song, which was originally (lyrics by Barry Mann) a protest:

Only in America,
land of opportunity,
can they save a seat
in the back of the bus just for me.
Only in America,
Where they preach the Golden Rule,
will they start to march
when my kids go to school.

The lyrics were rewritten by Jerry Leiber:

Only in America
Can a guy from anywhere
Go to sleep a pauper
and wake up a millionaire

Only in America
Can a kid without a cent
Get a break and maybe
grow up to be President

But record company executives decided this was just as bad -- a black man grow up to be president? Preposterous!

So the Drifters' voices were removed from the tape and another group was overdubbed onto the same instrumental track.

Jay And The Americans - "Only In America" (1963)




Only in America

Not sure that this is on topic, but "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is playing in the background. I remember when this came out in 1973. It's still true today.

Gordon Sinclair "The Americans"

Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler - "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966)

Real American