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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: 'Proud to Be an American': A Line-by-Line Inquest "If tomorrow all the things were gone I worked for all my life": past perfect? Is your life over -- or your career? "And I had to start again With just my children and my wife": were they the start, weren't you a working person before marriage fatherhood? A strategically maudlin reference to "baseball, apple pie and Mom" as they used to say? (Which wife? You're on #4.) "I thank my lucky stars To be living here today": 'lucky stars' connotes superstition. Are you proud to be a Christian? Afraid to name Christ before America's diversity of jews, atheists, towelheads, dotheads et al? "'Cause the flag still stands for freedom": what do you mean 'still'? Here beginneth a curious under-theme: ameriKa under some unnamed burden of decay or deprivation. "And they can't take that away" -- who's 'they'? Muslims, Al-Qaeda, hippies, racists, anti-semites, naziswhowanttokillsixmillionjews? What unnamed group is removing flags or stealing freedom in your opinion? Inquiring minds want to know. Something tells me you're not referring to the USG, Extreme Court, Dems, Repubs, Antifa, BLM, ADL, SPLC, NEA, NBC, CBS ABC or PBS, because they ARE taking the flag AND freedom away, FAST. "And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free": "at least" is one of the most fateful phrases commonly heard today, and that's saying something. By it you clearly imply that America's merits or blessings have been greatly reduced by some unmentioned force from some much better former condition. "And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me": I hope you mean the founding fathers and mothers, because it is a toxic myth that war brings or ensures freedom at home (and the Revolution is questionable enough in that regard). "And I'd gladly stand up next to you And defend Her still today": stand up -- defend? In a battle line of some kind? Emptily repeating the Pledge to the Flag? Bodily preventing David Duke from speaking at a college? (Defend "her"? You haven't laid any groundwork for thus personating America. Freedom or the 'American flag' won't work logically there either.) "'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. God Bless the U.S.A.": Which God, and why should her or she want to when America is now the world capitol of profanation and desecration? "From the lakes of Minnesota To the hills of Tennessee / Across the plains of Texas From sea to shining sea / From Detroit down to Houston And New York to L.A. / Well there's pride in every American heart And it's time we stand and say": there might have been pride in every American heart 100 years ago, but.... wait, that would have been the giddy Roaring Twenties. Maybe the 1890s -- oops, that war of aggression, and right after so-called Reconstruction. I'm trying to be less cynical here and you're not helping. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- Greenwood re-recorded the track for his 1992 album American Patriot. The popularity of the song rose again sharply after the September 11 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the song was re- released as a single, re-entering the country music charts at No. 16 and peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in 2001.[5] A new version of the song was recorded in 2003 and released as "God Bless the U.S.A. 2003." The song has sold over a million copies in the United States by July 2015.[6] en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/God_Bless_the_U.S.A. Poster Comment: No wonder he $miles when he $ings it. 'In 1989, Greenwood released a Canadian version of this song called "God Bless You Canada"' -- Canadian currency appropriately comes in rainbow colors. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
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Excellent! Awaiting your take on the Battle "Hymn" of the Republic...
Thanks -- wrote exactly that years ago. Maybe I can find it and WordPerfect 12 will be so kind as to resurrect it from its DOS grave! Incidentally one line of the song has precedent in jew paranoia -- the Gershwin brothers' They Can't Take That Away From Me. Unfortunately the lyricist died many before my aware period so I never thought to find out from him what "they" he was talking about and why. Can only assume it's maybe "anti-semites" e.g. a jew-aware pre-soviet Russia running families like his off for no reason at all, ever. Or is it a reference to the irate goyish parents of the sweetheart being addressed in the song? Admittedly a very catchy and tuneful creation. Ira Gershwin's photo in Wikipedia is purely diabolical.
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