Hi, Kevin - Reinhard Zierke has a better transcription at his Mainly Norfolk Website.
Martin Carthy performs Aux anciens parapets
For chewing gum, cola, brunch burgers and rye
America
Omertà, Sinatra, Mom’s apple pie
America
For the death of the buffalo, the birth of the blues,
For high balls and hot dogs and bootlegger’s booze
Honest John, Minuteman, Trident and Cruise
America
Dumbo, Rambo, Bonzo, Sue Ellen, J.R.
America
For Elvis and Bing and the Cadillac car
America
For space age technology, for stone age finesse,
For getting us all in one hell of a mess,
With your God save America, God damn the rest
America
Nixon, Kissinger, bombs in Vietnam
America
That sly red-necked huckster they call Uncle Sam
America
For the sake of the thousands of children who died,
For your generals, your senators, your presidents who lied,
For their Mickey Mouse morals, Neanderthal pride
America
Showbiz and all of the razzamatazz
America
Uncle Toms cabin, chain gang, Alcatraz
America
Peanuts, popcorn, B movies and glamour parades,
Las Vegas, and crap and amusement arcades
Ku Klux Klan, Billy Graham and moral crusades
America
We stand against you