Born Again American x 2!

...Speaking of music...
and speaking of /for America...

( Yes! Two of my favorite subjects.)

I got this in an email and I just had to share it because it touched me deeply.

(The last time I posted something about my political views I lost at least one reader who I had thought was a friend...but...so be it!)

AMERICA should be about all of our freedoms!

This impressed me!

Hope you enjoy this wonderful video performed by some of our people, from sea to shining sea!









BORN AGAIN AMERICAN
By Keith Carradine


Just a workin’ man without a job
It got shipped off to China via Washington, D.C.
And I know I’m nothin’ special, there are plenty more like me
Just the same
I thought I knew the rules of the game

I stood up for this country that I love
I came back from the desert to a wife and kids to feed
I’m not sayin’ Uncle Sam should give me what I need
My offer stands
I’ll pull my weight you give me half a chance

I went up to a congressman and said to him “you know
Our government is letting people down”
He said he’d need a lot of help to buck the status-quo
I said there was a bunch of us around

I’m a Born Again American, conceived in Liberty
My Bible and the Bill of Rights, my creed’s equality
I’m a Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea

My brother’s welding chassis at the plant
He’s earning what our granddad did in 1948
While CEOs count bonuses behind the castle gates
How can they see
When all they care about’s the do re mi

It’s getting where there’s nowhere left to turn
Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
So many of our citizens are living in despair
The time has come
To reaffirm that hope’s not just for some

The promise of America’s surrendering to greed
The rule is just look out for number one
But brace yourself ‘cause some of us have sown a different seed
A harvest of the spirit has begun

I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and The Bill Of Rights
My creed’s equalityA Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea

It’s clear my country’s soul is on the line
She’s hungering for something that she lost along the way
The principle the framers called upon us to obey
That in this land
The people’s will must have the upper hand

I felt the calling once before and took a sacred vow
And faithful to that vow I have remained
I hear the calling once again, my country needs me now
And to her cause I have been re-ordained

I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and the Bill Of Rights, all people living free
A Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
A M E R I C A

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Update:

OK~ Before any controversy gets under way about the word changes...
I'm posting Keith Carradine doing the song.

Yah - a couple words are changed!
( is-and)

Some people in comments on Youtube websites claim this changes the whole meaning of the song and makes it more Christian. (A bad thing??)

( Personally I can live with 'The Bill of Rights and my Bible'... OR I can live with 'The Bill of Rights IS my Bible!' :) )

The song was new for me and I was impressed with people all across our land, joining together to do this song and send this message of unity for our people! I was surprised to learn of the controversy concerning these word changes!

OK~ listening to Carradine's vid I hear different verses also, near the end of the song- and I think some of the other song's verses were omitted! I can't make out all of the words and have been unable to find the original-complete lyrics!
( would appreciate if anyone has a link to them to send me)

Yikes! So it really IS a can of worms here! haha!

My question...since the song was written by Keith Carradine, wouldn't he hold the rights to the song? Did he not mind the changes? Wouldn't he have to give his approval? Just wondering...

Oh well!

LOL- so much for our unity!!

Anyway you look at it- or listen to it, I should say- it's a good song! IMHO





Love,
Junie