Help me compile a list of good, pro-america songs.

[Matthew Zak]

I remember when I was kid going to Valley Fair near the 4th of July and there was a light show, and during the light show a song played. I can almost hear it but I can't get the lyrics and I don't know the name. It was very powerful to me at the time just based on the music. But now I'm feeling a lot of pride for our country and everything it has gone through and everything it is going through, so I want to make a Ron Paul video which embodies the spirit of that song. I think it will hit home with a lot of people.

[Matthew Zak]

Oh I suppose this should be in another sub forum. Ooops.

[Corydoras]

Just how long ago were you a kid?

Was it Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rnf7DS5YlQ

(I just read that Lee Greenwood supported the Iraq war, btw)

[quickmike]

Pink Houses by John Mellencamp?

also known as "aint that america"

[quickmike]

Just how long ago were you a kid?

Was it Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rnf7DS5YlQ

(I just read that Lee Greenwood supported the Iraq war, btw)

Comedian David Cross had a funny one about Lee Greenwood and Iraq:D

"Cross sings a line from "God Bless the U.S.A." — "And I'd gladly STAND UP next to you and defend her still today" and notes, "Really? Well, here's your second chance asshole ... pick up a gun and hop to it! Plane leaves from over there. ... What? Sorry, I couldn't hear you with all the flags flapping in my ears. What? What's that? Oh, you've got another gig in Branson? Thats too bad."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Bb-pZTcmQ

[DaneKirk]

Battle Hymn of the Republic, and download songs played by the US Marine Band. There job is to play those types of tunes among other things.

[Heather in WI]

We Love the USA;
The Star-Spangled Banner;
You're a Grand Old Flag;
Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue;
The Stars and Stripes Forever;
There Are Many Flags;
America;
America, America;
America the Beautiful;
Yankee Doodle Boy;
Yankee Doodle;
Old Abe Lincoln;
Battle Hymn of the Republic;
When Johnny Comes Marching Home;
Goober Peas;
The Army Goes Rolling Along;
The Caissons Go Rolling Along;
Marine's Hymn;
Anchors Aweigh;
and
The Air Force Song

[N13]

Pink Houses by John Mellencamp?

also known as "aint that america"

Good one. Brings to mind the "Authority Song"

Oh, they like to get you in a compromising position
They like to get you there and smile in your face
Well, they think they're so cute when they got you in that condition
Well I think it's a total disgrace
And I said:

CHORUS:
I fight authority, Authority always wins
Well, I fight authority, Authority always wins
Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid
I come out grinnin'
Well, I fight authority, Authority always wins

So I call up my preacher
I say, "Give me strength for Round 5."
He said , "You don't need no strength, you need to grow up son."
I said, "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying"
"OO and dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
So I said:
CHORUS

I said Oh no no no (3X)
I fight authority Authority always wins

[N13]

Probably doesn't fit the motif, but Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 were 9" works in some ways.

If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind
If the mountains ah, fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me.
(Well, all right)

Got my own world to live through and uh, ha !
And I ain't gonna copy you.

Yeah (sing the song brother...)
Now if uh, six uh, huh, turned out to be nine
Oh I don't mind, I don't mind uh ( Well all right... )
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
Oh I don't care, oh I don't care.
Dig.

'Cause I've got my own world to live through and uh, huh
And I ain't gonna copy you.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street
Pointin' their plastic finger at me, ha !
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but uh
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high !
Oww !

Wave on, wave on...

Ah, ha, ha
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on mister business man, you can't dress like me
Yeah !

Don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to
Yeah, sing on brother, play on drummer

[Heather in WI]

Oh, and

God Bless America;
Lift Every Voice and Sing;
My Country 'Tis of Thee;
Stars and Stripes Forever;
Eternal Father, Strong to Save;
and
Semper Paratus

[N13]

Crosby Stills & Nash

Long Time Gone:

It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a long time gone

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long
Appears to be a long time
Yes, a long, long, long, long time before the dawn

Turn turn any corner
Hear you must hear what the people say
You know there's something that's goin' on around here
The surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day, no

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long, mmm
Appears to be a long time
Such a long, long time before the dawn

Speak out you got to speak out against the madness
You got to speak your mind if you dare
But don't, no don't, no, try to get yourself elected
If you do you had better cut your hair, mmm

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long, mmm
Appears to be a long time
Such a long, long, long, long time before the dawn

It's been a long time comin' (Long time comin')
It's goin' to be a long time gone (Long time gone)

But you know
The darkest hour
Is always, always just before the dawn

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long
Appears to be a long time
Such a long, long, long, long time before the dawn

[N13]

Crosby Stills & Nash:

Woodstock

Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Tell me where are you going?
This he told me

Said, I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,
Gonna join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Well, then can I walk beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning.
And maybe it's the time of year,
Yes and maybe it's the time of man.
And I don't know who I am,
But life is for learning.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song and a celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are caught in the devils bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.