Friday Tunage _ Happy Birthday, America

[Ben Lamb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58



Super highways coast to coast just easy to get anywhere
On the trans continental overload; just slide behind the wheel
How does it feel when there's no destination that's too far
And somewhere on the way you might find out who you are?
Living in America, eye to eye, station to station
Living in America, hand to hand across the nation
Living in America, got to have a celebration!
I live in America
I live in America

 

[glass eye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_enljD4380


Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer

And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith that can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring

Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see
What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world
And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope

The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
And I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

And I know this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And with the prairies I am calling out Your name

 

[Ben Lamb]

Nice, Glass Eye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYVH_kZkOk

 

[tjones]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv61zBZacpo

 

[JohnCushman]

Since we started out as anarchy for the UK.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96LT7xPW82k

 

[Ben Lamb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KcJTP8nW8

 

[jabber]

Seems appropriate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6Hn5pVYzc

 

[Nameless Range]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6h1IIp777A

 

[glass eye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xivG3HWIq44

Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story
And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm
Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America

And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America

And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint
The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints
And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see
But everywhere I go I'm looking

And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there
And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children
And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America

And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps
Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again
But I am home anywhere if You are where I am

And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America"

 

[BigHornRam]

Ben probably remembers this corny classic that was a big hit during the bicentennial.

https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0

 

[Ben Lamb]

Ben probably remembers this corny classic that was a big hit during the bicentennial.

https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0

Nothing says America like Afternoon Delight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W773ZPJhcVw

Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

 

[BigHornRam]

Bet you all like this one......

https://youtu.be/ERVLy-ltjHs

 

[Southern Elk]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CILIBlQ2D0Q

 

[RobG]

Seems appropriate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6Hn5pVYzc

Ha, who's that guy clapping on bottom right?

 

[RobG]

America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

 

[noharleyyet]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs

 

[bobbydean]

noharley,

wife's birthday is the 4th and she appreciated it.

Thank you.

 

[noharleyyet]

Happy birth anniversary to the missus bobbyd...that's a cool coincidence.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Happy Birthday America !!! have a great weekend and 4th of July everyone, Be Safe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxBmyRQlwQ