Tom T. Hall - America The Ugly paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson America The Ugly - Tom T. Hall




There was a man, came to see the USA from a foreign land
To photograph the progress of dear old Uncle Sam
He got off the boat in New York, went down to the Bowery
I know what the man went to photograph and to see
There were hopeless, hungry living dead
Winos who sell their souls for a bottle of a cheapest red
That's the picture that he wanted
And that's what he got they say, America the ugly today
He went to the Appalachians and he saw what we all have seen
Where people live on bread and soup, fat back and pinto beans
He saw the hungry children and he photographed the ragged clothes
I guess we're gonna try to tell him that it ain't so
There were good men standin' around with nothing to do
Pregnant young women who didn't even have a pair of shoes
The man got his pictures
And what are we going to say, "America the ugly today"
Then he went to the medicare centers and he saw the old people there
It seems that the young generation just didn't want 'em in their hair
He saw the poor man workin' it out while the mighty rich lives high
And my friend that brings a gleam to the enemy's eyes
There were some folks, had plenty and some had none at all
The enemy knows when a heart gets hard, the country is bound to fall
If we get heads and hearts together we won't have to hear them say
"America the ugly today, America the ugly today"



Writer(s): Tom T. Hall


Tom T. Hall - Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
Album Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
date de sortie
14-11-1995

1 Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Single Version
2 Magnificent Music Machine
3 A Million Miles To The City
4 I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew - Single Version
5 The Hitchhiker
6 Ballad Of Forty Dollars - Single Version
7 I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
8 Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
9 Strawberry Farms - Single Version
10 Watergate Blues - Single Version
11 I Want To See The Parade
12 100 Children - Single Version
13 The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Single Version
14 The Son Of Clayton Delaney
15 The Old Side Of Town
16 I Can't Dance
17 Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
18 A Week In A Country Jail - Single Version
19 Spokane Motel Blues - Single Version
20 Homecoming - Single Version
21 Ravishing Ruby - Single Version
22 Down At The Mall - Single Version
23 Fox On The Run - Single Version
24 Shoeshine Man
25 Flat-Footin' It - Single Version
26 Old Five And Dimers Like Me
27 Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
28 More About John Henry - Single Version
29 Give Her My Best - 1995 Box Set Version
30 Pamela Brown
31 I Flew Over Our House Last Night - Single Version
32 Molly And Tenbrooks - 1976 Album Version
33 The Monkey That Became President - Single Version
34 That's How I Got To Memphis
35 Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
36 I Like Beer - Single Version
37 That Song Is Driving Me Crazy - Single Version
38 Salute To A Switchblade - Single Version
39 Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
40 Subdivision Blues
41 America The Ugly
42 Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
43 Levi Jones - 1995 Box Set Version
44 Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet) - Single Version
45 I'm Forty Now
46 Deal - Single Version
47 Me And Jesus - Single Version




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