Lee Greenwood – God Bless the USA

“God Bless the U.S.A.” is a single by Lee Greenwood from the album You’ve Got a Good Love Comin’.  Released May 21, 1984.

Lee Greenwood wrote God Bless the U.S.A. in response to his feelings about the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. He said that he “wanted to write it my whole life. When I got to that point, we were doing 300 days a year on the road, and we were on our fourth or fifth album on MCA. I called my producer, and I said I have a need to do this. I’ve always wanted to write a song about America, and I said we just need to be more united.” As for writing the song itself, Greenwood wrote that it more or less “wrote itself”, and that the lyrics flowed naturally from the music as a reflection of his pride to be American.

The reason behind the cities chosen in the song Greenwood says, “I’m from California, and I don’t know anybody from Virginia or New York, so when I wrote it—and my producer and I had talked about it—[we] talked about the four cities I wanted to mention, the four corners of the United States. It could have been Seattle or Miami but we chose New York City and Los Angeles, and he suggested Detroit and Houston because they both were economically part of the basis of our economy—Motortown and the oil industry, so I just poetically wrote that in the bridge.” During and post his presidency, Donald Trump used the song as his entrance tune at the beginning of all of his rallies. Additionally Greenwood, a fervent Trump supporter, himself performed the song at such rallies on multiple occasions.

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Lee Greenwood - God Bless the USA (Live in 1985)03:02

Single lansat la 21 Mai 1984, de pe albumul You’ve Got a Good Love Comin’. Un cântec patriotic inspirat din tragedia avionului korean 007 la 1 Septembrie 1983.

A început să cânte melodia în spectacole în toamna lui 1983, publicul aplaudand de la primele note. După o vreme, a schimbat melodia la sfârșitul de spectacol ca și moment culminant.

Versuri:

If tomorrow all my things were gone
I’d work for all my life.
And I had had to start again,
With just my children and my wife.
And I’d think my lucky stars to be livin’ here today,
Cause the flag still stand for freedom and they can’t take that away

And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the ones who died who gave that right to me
And I’ll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today
Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA…..

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