Slightly American Music

(album: Long Promised Road - 2021)

Born between two oceans
I took a great notion
Hitchiked all across this land
Raised on funky Broadway
I came up the hard way
C'mon fellas strike up the band

I heard it
I heard it
I heard it
I heard it
I heard it
I heard it the first time

I gotcha
I gotcha
I gotcha
I gotcha
I gotcha
I gotcha the first time

Honest Abe done freed those slaves
Eighteen sixty three
Sitting Bull and Geronimo
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

Slightly American music
Slightly American
Slightly American music
Totally rocking the world

Bandstand in Philly
Was knocking 'em silly
And Fats down in New Orleans
Elvis and Buddy
Mr. Waters was Muddy
"Rag doll", "sweet little sixteen"

We played it
We played it
We played it
We played it
We played it
We played it the first time

We made it
We made it
We made it
We made it
We made it the first time

Little Richard, Jerry Lee
'Round, 'round I get around
Spector built that wall so high
Even the Beatles couldn't tear it down
"Ooooooh!"

Sinatra and ole Bing
Taught us how to sing
In Nashville they're cooking
Say "hey good lookin"

The gang in motor city
Sure is sitting pretty
"School's out" in Alabama
Ding dong and rama lama

When I hear "Rhapsody in Blue"
It always makes me cry
Jolson falls down on his knees
Every single Fourth of July