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[jillan]

"Now two flags fly above my land that really sum up how I feel
One is the colors that fly high and proud
The red, the white and blue
The other ones got a rattlesnake with a simple statement made
"Don't tread on me" is what it says and I'll take that to my grave
Because this is me
I'm proud to be an american and strong in my beliefs

"And I've said it before but I'll say it again
Cause I've never needed government to hold my hand
And I've said it before but I'll say it again
Cause my family has always fought and died to save this land
And a country boy is all I'll ever be

(spoken)
"I love my country, I love my guns, I love my family, I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me, that should be all of our attitudes, that should be all of our attitudes cause this is America, and a country boys good enough for me, son."

http://www.metrolyrics.com/country-boy-lyrics-aaron-lewis.html

My daughter is watching GAC, I work at home on the computer... heard that last part, and stopped to find the lyrics to make sure what I heard is really what I thought I heard.

I say - We need a new song that says 'I love my country, I love my Unions, I love the middle class - and anybody that tries to change it has to come thru me.

[HopeHoops]

1. I heard one - the troops fight and die so the fucker can wear blue jeans and drink cold beer.

Yeah, I'm sure that's what the troops are thinking. Country music died in the early 80's and is just a bunch of Republican crap now.

[jillan]

2. Back in the 90s Country was much better. But it's going back to that redneck crap again.

[veganlush]

3. yes, the mid nineties

and on for me, '95 was when i first started listening to country and it was awesome, every song had a story and a heartfelt message..

[HopeHoops]

22. Well I was thinking more 50's/60's country as the "good stuff".

Ricky Scaggs hit the scene in the early 80's and that pretty much ended any hope for the genre.

[A Simple Game]

35. There has been very little actual Country music since the 60's.

Most of it is just Pop music with a slight twang. Garbage!

[HopeHoops]

36. Actually, the one thing I DO like is the newest Dixie Chicks CD. "Shut Up And Sing"...

I watched the DVD and decided to get the latest CD. That's actually pretty good stuff, and yes, I would call it "country".

[patrice]

4. So, "Don't tread on me" supercedes being united under Old Glory. Isn't that treason? nt

[sakabatou]

5. So if he needs to call 911,

he'll eat his own words.

[jillan]

7. I just want to scream at these anti-gov people GET OFF the roads!

[NoPasaran]

6. The Workers Flag is deepest red

The Workers Flag is deepest red
It sheltered oft our martyred dead
Tho 'ere their weary limbs grew cold
They dyed the Red Flag's ev'ry fold

So raise the scarlet banner high
Beneath its fold we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the Red Flag flying here

[Davis_X_Machina]

25. I have to confess....

...back in the '70's I heard the parody first, then the real thing.

The people's flag is palest pink
It's not as red as you might think.
White collar workers stand and cheer
Your Labour government is here.

We'll change the country bit by bit
So no-one will notice it.
And just to show we're still sincere
We'll sing the Red Flag once a year.

Labour had issues long before Mr. Blair came along and cut its nuts off..

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. This land is their land...

...it sure ain't your land.
It isn't 'our' land.
Get out of my land.
From California,
To the Gulf Stream waters,
This land was made for real Americans, the people who drive pickups, and would listen to a truck backup alarm if it had some pedal steel and the occasional mention of God, and can't stand folks not speaking proper English, like Jesus does in the King James Bible, even though it, and they, spell kinda funny, as read by the pastor at the mega-church, the one on the bypass, kitty-corner from the Wal-Mart and the Walgreens, in the green-field suburb that was soybeans until '97 or so, you and me.

[old mark]

9. K&R- I just heard the tail end of that piece of shit on the car radio Thursday...

mostly part of the last verse and the spoken ending...Seems like yet another call to violence and manipulating the ignorant.

Is it time for some really angry leftist songs? If we are going to be in a fight, and it seems like we already are, we ought to have some great tunes, too.


mark

[jillan]

11. Like I put in the OP - we need a song like this about Unions and the working class... without the

undertone of violence.

[WinkyDink]

10. Cynical separating of ignorant fools from their money. America is known for it.

[Bluebear]

12. 'I love my guns'

Love?? good gravy.

[boobooday]

13. Don't need government to hold your hand

Unless you're a farmer.

Or your house is on fire.

Or you flush a toilet.

Or drive.

Or expect to eat poison-free food.

[Ikonoklast]

14. You forgot the liner that says

"And no god-damn ****** will ever tell me what to do!"


Only white males are patriots.

[Davis_X_Machina]

20. I'm a white male...

...and a straight one too.

But I belong to a public employees' union, have a Phi Beta Kappa key, speak a language -- passably -- other than English, sold my only gun to buy the kid's textbooks, and am a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists, don't belong to a church, and last voted for a Republican only because Dukakis lost the Democratic nomination for governor that go-round.

So I'm clearly not a patriot.

What the hell am I?

[Ikonoklast]

28. Then you aren't really a white guy.

Real white guys are only what right-wingers say they are, and you sir, are none of them.











Probably speak French, doncha, hippy?

[jillan]

31. Normal!

[Davis_X_Machina]

33. I protest! I'm allergic to pedal steel.

I don't like beer you can read a newspaper through.
The last time I went to a football game, they were using the single-wing.
I thought "Cabelas" was the Prime Minister of Spain.

[Iris]

15. Ah, yes. America. Where we should all strive only to be a "country boy" because it's "good enough"

n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. In heaven...

...Abe Lincoln wets himself laughing....

[Iris]

17. I'll bet he does!

thanks for making me laugh!

[walldude]

18. LMAO...Aaron Lewis..

Yeah he'll have Lee Greenwoods career.. Sitting at home hoping a war breaks out so he can make royalties off the one hit song he had.

[Davis_X_Machina]

23. Do civil wars count?

And do they actually have to be shooting wars? Do cold wars count?

Because if the answer is 'yes', the boy might have a career yet.

Needs more Messicans in it, though.

One of the most interesting things about the new, highly mobile, networked America is that you can go from coast hearing the same music, eating the same burgers, using one ATM card, and never having to adjust your prejudices.

Nothing the rednecks up here, 2000 miles from the Rio Grande, love more than talking smack about Messicans. It's hard to imagine a bar full of locals in Eagle Pass saying dumbass things about Québecois, but I'm sure it could happen.

[fishwax]

26. he had plenty of success with Staind

commercial success, anyway ...

[no_hypocrisy]

34. Him? My free association to the lyrics was Billy Ray Cyrus in a futile

attempt to compensate for his skank daughter by "reviving" his "career".

[cali]

19. no blood pressure rise for me. I think the lyrics are hilarious.

[fishwax]

30. they made me chuckle too

[Populist_Prole]

21. Blecchhh!

Sappier and more corny than even the vomit inducing 'Proud to be an American'.

[TlalocW]

24. Let him spew his b.s. What's going to happen is...

Someone will find out his dad was in a union, or they took federal farm subsidies (like tea-party favorite, Michelle Bachmann) or something that makes his chest-thumping good ol' boyism seem hypocritical.

If he had gone full blown conservative and put something anti-gay in his lyrics, he would have been caught in a tryst with another male within 6 months (like too many other conservatives to name).

TlalocW

[MedleyMisty]

27. I grew up on country

in the 80s to the mid 90s, when it went corporate and sucky as hell and I found other genres. I was a teenager and grunge alternative was just starting to get popular. :)

I just wanted to say - please don't hate on people who listen to country. Shit like this is part of the whole divide & conquer set the lower classes against each other thing. If you're hating on the poor country people who like country instead of the corporations that put this crap out as propaganda in the form of music, you're letting them win.

[jillan]

32. Don't get me wrong - I listen to Country. Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson

among my favorites. I even like Zach Brown, even tho they tend to lean way right.

Trisha, Garth, Faith, Keith Urban - alot of country music that I love. I even love some of the my wife left me and took my pickup truck songs.

It's just this kind of bs that I can't stand.

[Sunnyshine]

29. Staind lead singer says he is a "Constitooshunalist"...

His song proves it! Sure thing bud!

[hfojvt]

37. He loves the way it is now?

I love the way it was then.

When I was a kid, the bottom 50% made more income than the top 1%

year ** top 1% ** bottom 50% (income in billions)

1986 * 285.2 * 420.6
1987 * 346.6 * 439.8
1988 * 473.5 * 466.3
1989 * 468.1 * 493.6
1990 * 483.2 * 518.7
1991 * 456.6 * 532.1
1992 * 523.6 * 549.2
1993 * 520.6 * 563.3
1994 * 546.7 * 589.8
1995 * 619.6 * 617.1
1996 * 736.5 * 646.1
1997 * 872.8 * 695.5
1998 * 1,010.2 * 747.8
1999 * 1,152.8 * 783.2
2000 * 1,336.8 * 834.2
2001 * 1,094.3 * 861.8
2002 * 985.8 * 869.7
2003 * 1,054.6 * 879.7
2004 * 1,306.4 * 922.3
2005 * 1,591.7 * 963.1
2006 * 1,791.9 * 1,016.4
2007 * 2,008.3 * 1,078.3
2008 * 1,685.5 * 1,074.5

So he's in the bottom 50% and wants to fight to make sure the income of the top 1% is protected? :wtf:

[Shallah Kali]

38. Waylon Jennings - "America"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGz_xSSgjY0

Well I come from, down around Tennesee
But the people in California
Are nice to me, Amer-ica
It don't matter where I may roam
Tell you people that it's home sweet home
America, Amer-ica

Chorus:
And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too
And the red man is right, to expect a little from you
Promise and then follow through, America

And the men, who fell on the plains
And lived, through hardship and pain
America, Amer-ica
And the men who could not fight
In a war that didn't seem right
You let them come home, America

rest of the lyrics http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/jennings-waylon/america-13129.html