I love you singing America - music is what you do best
sing to me in a minor key - just for a change E minor, A minor
soft non threatening wistful sounds in delicate keys
exploring the realms of subtlety
different planes of existence higher than language
that lift you to harmony suggestive of beauty
with feelings so deep
refrains that echo the sweetest love.

Come down from your key of G major America
your all conquering triumphant battle call
G major's the key of the old testament god
beating his war-drum relentlessly
it's the drum you march to America
bellicose, arrogant, revenge
that ends in eye-for-an-eye futility.

Forget your land mines, your cluster bombs, your depleted uranium
don't even think of your 'mother-of-all-bombs'
bury your bunker busters along with your missiles
these bring you down to just another 'rogue state'.

Roll out your music America - do a soft-shoe-shuffle, a tap or a waltz
stun us all with your blues from the Delta -
country soul from a Nashville stage
New Orleans jazz - rock and roll
Janis and Jimi still pulsing and shouting
from every lonely one-horse outpost.

Let's hear again your protest songs - Phil Ochs and Dylan
Neil Young's tyrades against injustice
Jackson Brown's hymns of peace
the anti-war anthems of Buffy Saint Marie
raw grunge from Seattle, loud brass from Chicago
your moon-drenched cajun from Louisianna swamp-lands
rap and punk from Harlem/New York
folk songs of hardship and poverty
from your favourite son Woody Guthrie

Lets hear the sweet fiddlers from Appalacia -
ballads from the mountains of Arkansas
gospel, soul, junk and pop
it's always music you do best
you know your bombing's not all that good
and collateral damage, your friendly fire -
your euphemisms for slaughter
are no-one's cup of tea.

I love you singing America - music is what you do best
just sing to me in a minor key, just for a change E minor, A minor
soft non threatening wistful sounds
exploring the realms of subtlety
different plains of existence higher than language
that lift you to harmony suggestive of beauty
with feelings so deep - refrains that echo the sweetest love