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Our Country Lyrics
Well I can stand beside
Ideals I think are right
And I can stand beside
The idea to stand and fight
I do believe
There's a dream for everyone
This is our country
There's room enough here
For science to live
And there's room enough here
For religion to forgive
And try to understand
All the people of this land
This is our country
From the east coast
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
That poverty could be
Just another ugly thing
And bigotry would be
Seen only as obscene
And the ones that run this land
Help the poor and common man
This is our country
From the east coast
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
The dream is still alive
Some day it will come true
And this country it belongs
To folks like me and you
So let the voice of freedom
Sing out through this land
This is our country
From the east coast
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
From the east coast
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
Ideals I think are right
And I can stand beside
The idea to stand and fight
I do believe
There's a dream for everyone
This is our country
For science to live
And there's room enough here
For religion to forgive
And try to understand
All the people of this land
This is our country
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
Just another ugly thing
And bigotry would be
Seen only as obscene
And the ones that run this land
Help the poor and common man
This is our country
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
Some day it will come true
And this country it belongs
To folks like me and you
So let the voice of freedom
Sing out through this land
This is our country
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
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Probably a fine, patriotic song, but associating it with selling pickup trucks has made it jingoistic, and totally ruined it for me.
annoying song. just like every single other country song. no different. i hate that commercial
It's his Guthro moment.
I remember John Mellencamp talking about this song on NPR ~a month ago it is a call for the end to the culture wars
"There's room enough here For science to live And there's room enough here For religion to forgive And try to understand All the people of this land"
I really like this song, i did not like the GM used it in their commercials to sell cars.
I would like to point out that this song is very patriotic, the reason i say that is that John Melloncamp is telling us, as the poeple of this country, need to take it back and reign in the wild and mad spending polictians.
Return the country to the people, ever hear of the phrases "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,". you know from the Delcaration of Indepence.