Takin' my country back

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Sung by Joe Stampley

I'm takin' my country back


Country music's got mamas and daddys

We got bar rooms and old heartbreak songs

But I'm here today to stand up and say

How I feel about my home sweet home

What's left, what's right and what's wrong...

and I'm taking my country back

Son, you ain't been doin' her right

Oh, I been watchin' you and I don't like

How you've been treatin' my stars and stripes

You took our jobs and sent 'em overseas

Now we owe billions to the red Chinese

You blew the budget and you botched Iraq

So I'm taking my country back.

We had a bundle in the treasury drawer

More than there had ever been there before

But every day we're drownin' deeper in dept

Maybe four years should be all you get

Then you gave tax breaks to the millionaires

And tried to make the workin' man pay

But you can't tax a man when his jobs not there

Now look at where we are today...hey

I'm taking my country back

Son, you ain't been doin' her right

Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like

How you been treatin' my stars and stripes

you've got too many fancy friends for me

The Saudis treat you like you're royalty

You blew the budget and you botched Iraq

Now I'm takin' my country back

Now I can understand why you were hot

'Cause Bin Laden never did get caught

So you said we had Saddam to blame

Tried to tell us it was all the same

But now the years roll by and our kids keep dyin'

You don't even have a plan to bring 'em home

And those W.M.D. you promised on T.V.

Hey admit it, you figured it wrong...

so I'm takin' my country back

Now you don't know my name,

but you know who I am

I'm your everyday work hard, play hard

Raise kids and pray hard common man

And lord knows I love this land...that's why

I'm taking my country back

Son, you ain't been doin' her right

Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like

How you been treatin' my stars and stripes

You say "unite" but you divide us more

Cussin' each other on the Senate floor

Ain't we supposed to be above all that?

Hey I'm taking my country back

I got my family and my church and flag...

Now I'm takin' my country back

Copyright 2004 David A. Kent
http://www.takinmycountryback.com/