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kentuck

(111,076 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2018, 02:06 PM Jul 2018

Here is a short song I wrote about ten years ago (just the words)

GOODBYE USA
(THE AMERICAN DREAM)

We’ll leave here in the morning-
Goodbye USA-
We’ll stop in Arizona on the way.

Put the kids in the car -
And fill it up with gas -
The American Dream -
Was too good to last.

Left our families and our friends-
And drove day and night-
Looking for a place-
With a friendly light.

Worked our fingers to the bone-
In the mines and in the fields-
Trying to make enough-
Just to pay our bills.

So put the kids in the car-
You know we can’t be late-
‘Cause tonight we’ll be-
Sleeping in Santa Fe.

We’ll leave here in the morning-
Goodbye USA-
We’ll stop in Arizona on the way.

D-A-G-D