God Bless America

Words & Music: Jake Thackray

He was only a lonely American,
As American as aftershave and apple pie,
Sitting on the steps of the Albert Memorial
He started to cry.
‘I’ve done Paris and I’ve done Copenhagen,
I’ve done Amsterdam and I’ve done Rome,
And I’ve been done by everybody everywhere,
I want to go home.

God bless, God bless America, God bless the biggest and best.
God save, God save America, and God help all the rest.

Take me to the land of the tranquilizer,
Home of the free and the cut-price gun,
Cradle of democracy and roll-on deodorant,
Land of the flying nun.
I miss tomato ketchup and sody-pop,
Black-eyed peas and blueberry pie,
I miss the clubs of the coppers in Chicago,
I’m a regular guy.

God bless, God bless America, God bless Uncle Sam.
God save, God save America, and Vietnam Goddam.

I’m just a red-blooded, decent all-American,
I honour the flag and the atom bomb,
Say my prayers to General Motors and
I love my mom.
People over here don’t know how to make a pizza and
Their French-fried potatoes only make me smile,
And they can’t grill a n*gger quite the way that we do –
southern style.

God bless, God bless America, God will ‘cause God’s okay.
God’ll save, He’ll save America, He’s been cleared by the CIA.

Carry me back to the land of fraternity
Where the elks and the buffaloes roam,
Where seldom is heard an unAmerican word,
I want to go home.
He was only a lonely American,
As American as aftershave and apple pie,
Sitting on the steps of the Albert Memorial,
He started to cry.

God bless, God bless America, God bless the Klu Klux Klan.
God save, God save America, He’s the only one who can.