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Johnny Sea
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Day For Decision
Day for Decision
Narrative:
The other day I heard someone say You know America is in real trouble
It's true
Old Glory has never fallen so close to the earth
Our
Embassies are being stoned
Our diplomats are often in fear for their
Lives
And we're involved in a half dozen nameless winless conflicts
Spilling American blood on foreign soil
Our young men are dying for
Ideals that don't seem to mean too much to Americans anymore
The truth is America's real trouble doesn't lie in the rice paddies of
Vietnam in the masses of Red China or in the diabolical intrigues to the
South of us
The real trouble lies in the playgrounds of St Louis the
Hillside mansions of San Francisco and in the slums of Chicago
A disease
Which is slowly eating away at the heart of America lives in the small
Southern towns the fishing villages of New England and in the hot dusty
Streets of the midwest
This is the age of the American cynic
The year of the unbeliever
The day
Of doubt
We've killed all the sacred cows and destroyed all the images
And there's nothing left to respect
Old fashioned love of God country
And family is passe
We stare at our shoelaces when they play the national
Anthem
We wouldn't want to be seen at a political rally or a town hall
Meeting
And we don't want to be caught with our eyes closed during public
Prayers
We've decided the only way to get into public office is to buy
It
Our heroes are the fast guys who get away with things
Patriotism the
Old hand over the heart flag waving singing patriotism has been
Condemned
Think about this
Patriotism
When you tear away the fancy
Phrases and crepe paper it's plain and simple pride
It's a new
Car prettier girl bigger house sort of pride in country
Somewhere along
The way we've lost it
Our form of government is the same
We still say
America stands for the same things
But next time you're at a party ask
Someone to sing American the Beautiful and see what happens
The basic ideals and structure of America haven't changed
We have
You
And me
Our enemies know it
They've seen the newsreels of the
Discontented marching around the capitol
They've distorted and blown up
Our mistakes
They've been putting steel wedges in the cracks in our wall
Of solidarity
The new idea is:Don't attack America wear it down
Gradually it'll eventually fall under the weight of its own corruption
And did you know it's working
This sneering complacency once stamped out by the bloody feet of a
Tattered Continental Army in 1776 once drowned beneath the keel of the
U S S Arizona in Pearl Harbor Bay has risen again
This deadly Let
George do it attitude lights the way for the Viet Cong in the swampy
Jungles of Vietnam
This Better red than dead cancer is more feared by
The American soldier than all the communist mortar shells
It kills the
Vitality and spirit of America
Democracy is a frail and fragile
Instrument
Made of hope prayer and Yankee ingenuity
It is held
Together by a fourth of July flag waving patriotism
And we've almost
Exhausted our supply of it
Try this test
Lift your eyes to a flag then
Sing out as loud as you can that old out worn antiquated freedom hymn you
Learned so many years ago:
For purple mountain majesties
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
Above the fruited plain
America
America
America
America
God shed His grace on thee
God shed His grace on thee
Now if you feel a little pride welling up inside of you if you feel a
Little mist in your eye then thank God for you mister you're still an
American
America America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
Transcribed by Little John
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording referenced
Above and are for personal use and research interest only