Looking for God Bless the USA parodies

Subject: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 12:29 AM

Hi all,

A conversation occured this weekend about issues with Lee Greenwood's song and we got to thinking someone must have parodied it. Any ideas?

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Anyone want to start writing now? Especially since Greenwood says he'd glady stand up to defend the USA, but during Vietnam he was a musician in Reno, Nevada.

Thanks in advance.

Blackcatter

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 05:04 AM

Here's one

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 09:43 AM

No doubt he was boosting morale, consoling lonely showgirls, you know...few are chosen.

He sort of parodied it himself, wrote a parallel effort for the Canadian country music market called "God Bless You Canada". I believe that even in the sycophantic Canadian country music radio world it went nowhere. Not really our style.

W-O

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 09:56 AM

Thanks guest - here's the lyrics from the link above:


God(s) Bless the USA

Parody by John Harvey

If tomorrow all our troops had gone
To go and bomb Iraq
Our only hope for peace
Is a Dick Cheney heart attack

I don't like stupid wars
It's not hard to explain
Conservatives say it's moral
But it's really just insane

I'm still proud to be an American
Though Bush oppresses me
I don't want any men to die
so very needlessly

The Right tells me to shut up
Cover ears and block out what I say
But there ain't now doubt I love this land
God(s) bless the USA

After that it's North Korea
And I really cannot see
Why AWOL boy from Texas
Dictates to you and me

I'm still proud to be an American
Though Bush oppresses me
I don't want any men to die
so very needlessly

The Right tells me to shut up
Cover ears and block out what I say
But there ain't now doubt I love this land
God(s) bless the USA

I'm still proud to be an American
Though Bush oppresses me
I don't want any men to die
so very needlessly

The Right tells me to shut up
Cover ears and block out what I say
But there ain't now doubt I love this land
God(s) bless the USA

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 10:20 AM

I hope this is not a very great drift, however, I think you may appreciate it, I was giving a concernt in an old folks home, avoiding the more radical of my songs, doing traditional ballads and such, and an old dear asked me to finish with God Bless America. Well, being a plain Quaker, I had the advantage to be able to say, I am sorry that is an oath, and we Quakers don't hold with oaths. She replied, with a note of threat... Well you better learn to!
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 12:35 PM

Yeah dammit Larry!

Shee-it!!

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Edmund
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 06:36 PM

These may not be quite on target, but this is the first chance I've ever had to broadcast them except to my secular humanist group when we were lookinmg for a theme song.

Godless America (Sorry about that, Irving Berlin)

Godless America, land that I love
In this season use your reason
Do not pray for a light from above.
Don't be weary. Test each theory. From the hard facts never roam.
Godless America, my home sweet home
Godless America, my home sweet home.

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It's Not Just Your Land (Woody Guthrie might have approved)

It's not just your land, it's also my land
From the California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters –
This land was made for you and me.

While you were praying, I heard you saying
That you were claiming the whole dang nation.
By stick or carrot, you'll have to share it --
This land belong to you and me.

As I went walking, I heard you talking.
You said the godless   they just weren't welcome
Yet here there's room in, for the secular human
This land was made for you and me.

We've forsworn Islam and Shintoism
Escaped dominion by the Church of England
It is not treason to live by reason.
This land was made for you and me.

The Declaration of Independence
Was signed by many a godless patriot
So don't ignore us, join in the chorus –
This land was made for you and me.

It's not just your land, it's also my land
From the California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters –
This land was made for you and me.

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 07:16 PM

I know how you feel Larry,

I'm a Unitarian have have the problem of having an issue of God blessing anything. I was really dismayed at the singing of that song at major league baseball games.

Subject: RE: Looking for God Bless the USA parodies
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 09:17 PM

I suppose I should write a version, something like Allah smiles on the USA for events like these... Cheers Larry