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Living in the U.S.A. Lyrics
Stand back, stand back
Stand back, stand back
Stand back, stand back
Stand back, stand back
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Where are you goin' to
What are you gonna do
Do you think that it will be easy
Do you think that it will be pleasin', hey
Stand back, what'd you say
Stand back, I won't pay
Stand back, I'd rather play
Stand back
It's my freedom
Ah, don't worry 'bout me, babe
I got to be free, babe
Hey
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Stand back, dietician
Stand back, television
Stand back, politician
Stand back, mortician
Oh, we got to get away
Living in the U.S.A.
Come on baby, Owwww
I see a yellow man, a brown man
A white man, a red man
Lookin' for Uncle Sam
To give you a helpin' hand
But everybody's kickin' sand
Even politicians
We're living in a plastic land
Somebody give me a hand, yeah
Oh, we're gonna make it, baby
Oh, we're going to shake it, baby
Oh, don't break it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Come on baby, hey
Hey, hey
In the U.S.A., babe yeah
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Don't worry 'bout me, babe
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
I got to be free
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Come on try it, you can buy it, you can leave it next week, yeah
Somebody give me a cheeseburger
Stand back, stand back
Stand back, stand back
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
What are you gonna do
Do you think that it will be easy
Do you think that it will be pleasin', hey
Stand back, I won't pay
Stand back, I'd rather play
Stand back
Ah, don't worry 'bout me, babe
I got to be free, babe
Hey
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Stand back, television
Stand back, politician
Stand back, mortician
Living in the U.S.A.
Come on baby, Owwww
A white man, a red man
Lookin' for Uncle Sam
To give you a helpin' hand
But everybody's kickin' sand
Even politicians
We're living in a plastic land
Somebody give me a hand, yeah
Oh, we're going to shake it, baby
Oh, don't break it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, hey
In the U.S.A., babe yeah
Living in the U.S.A.
Don't worry 'bout me, babe
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Living in the U.S.A.
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
I got to be free
Doot do do do do doot doot
Living in the U.S.A.
Come on try it, you can buy it, you can leave it next week, yeah
Somebody give me a cheeseburger
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awesome and a half. i dont understand how this didnt have any comments on it yet! you are crazy if you dont enjoy this song.
Well it the lyrics sum it up, what makes America great, Freedom, Cheeseburgers, Stock Cars etc. As great of a song as Were an American band by Grand Funk!!!!!!!
In this song I see the justification for starting a rock band: fear of a real job, and going against the grain-
"Where are you goin' to What are you gonna do Do you think that it will be easy Do you think that it will be pleasin', hey
Stand back, what'd you say Stand back, I won't pay Stand back, I'd rather play Stand back
It's my freedom Ah, don't worry 'bout me, babe I got to be free, babe Hey "
He's sayin' he's gonna live carefree and jobless and will have to learn for himself the downsides of it for himself. He doesn't want to depend on politicians to protect him because there is often fallouts. He'd rather take his chances, which is really what makes America America, cause you dont see many people in third-world countries running AWAY from college degrees and steady jobs. Something tells me he hated school more than most people. But he has every right to be cynical.
This song was one of the better ones...of 1968!! One tends to think that they busted out on the scene in the early seventies. "Everybody's kickin' sand..duh doo doo...even pol-it-icians living in a plastic land...somebody give me a HAND!!"
This song was one of the better ones...of 1968!! One tends to think that they busted out on the scene in the early seventies. "Everybody's kickin' sand..duh doo doo...even pol-it-icians living in a plastic land...somebody give me a HAND!!"
totally AWESOME! And I'm a Geek who never BOUGHT albums
totally AWESOME! And I'm a Geek who never BOUGHT albums
@Shep420 For those who don't hear the music think the dancers' crazy. Depends on 'where' you're looking at it from. Cynical for those in denial and ignoring reality, and realistic for those who were actually there. Of course the say about the 60's is if you remember the 60's you weren't there! You got to admit it's a great song and sold lots of copies. Oh, I remember school/high school going every day in beautiful Santa Barbara/Goleta. The contrast was stark! The beautiful land and nature, and the concentration, forced labor of...
@Shep420 For those who don't hear the music think the dancers' crazy. Depends on 'where' you're looking at it from. Cynical for those in denial and ignoring reality, and realistic for those who were actually there. Of course the say about the 60's is if you remember the 60's you weren't there! You got to admit it's a great song and sold lots of copies. Oh, I remember school/high school going every day in beautiful Santa Barbara/Goleta. The contrast was stark! The beautiful land and nature, and the concentration, forced labor of San Marcos High School of 2200 kids I didn't know (to begin with). No, kids didn't like school! And then the school wide meeting for no know reason at all. Assasination. You'd be well to visit the feeling of cynical and being pissed, through and through seeing you're friends and neighbor die one after another and you know you're next up to be sent to Nam. Americans and their addiction to optimism is the reason people didn't wake up and just followed their leaders like lemming to such a stupid, waste called war. And what for democracy? HA! Open your eyes. The Vietnamese would fight that war for over a thousand years and would eventually win? Why? Because they wanted to be like us, free, and have our constitution. So we sold them/Ho Chi Ming arms...for years. 420 and a steady job, huh? lol What we have to be grateful for today are those who paved the way in the 60's and (early) 70's and that's not just the in the U.S.
Unlike their Seventies Standards, THIS SMB Classic was written back in 1968. The Vietnam War, the Protests, the Chicago Convention Riots (not to mention the Bloody Riot there and in DC after MLK was Assassinated) the RFK Assassination, and the Radicals Not accepting Candidate Humphrey. NO MTV back then, but I can just SEE in my mind's eye, the Hippies, the Yippies, the Hell's Angels-ALL the Craziness.
@drpoundsign Me thinks you've been influenced to make too much of the "Radicals". All sorts of people weren't happy with LBJ's party nor Nixon's party (dems, and repbuglicans). 71 & 72 things were beginning to simmer down, and the big change was like in 67 to 70. It was especially chaos if you were of draft age. It was all crazy, maddening war against the people, the young, and it sucked year after year. What we had was us, our music our unity. The parade of lying Presidents was relentless and more and...
@drpoundsign Me thinks you've been influenced to make too much of the "Radicals". All sorts of people weren't happy with LBJ's party nor Nixon's party (dems, and repbuglicans). 71 & 72 things were beginning to simmer down, and the big change was like in 67 to 70. It was especially chaos if you were of draft age. It was all crazy, maddening war against the people, the young, and it sucked year after year. What we had was us, our music our unity. The parade of lying Presidents was relentless and more and more people knew it. Sucked big money - your and our future. No recovery from that, and maybe that was the biggest part of it all - to suck the life blood out of democracy, freedom and the middle class - just like today! Keep the up and coming down and falling...as in dead. Same sides, the same lessons not learned- that's 50 plus years of crap. One cover up after another. How do you spell conspiracy? "Status quo" or "denial"?
Harmonica/drum intro to great tempo rock blues late 60s song. Stevie Guitar, Boz Scaggs, Tim Davis, Lonnie Turner, Jim Peterman. Tight combo
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good review
good review
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good review
good review
I used to think the lyric was “Stamp Act”, LOL! IDK why P