Terry Murphy: Music

American Music (Terry Murphy)

~One of our most valued exports and contributions to the good of the world…this song is about respecting the homegrown musical beauty of our own culture~

Myself I drive a foreign car
A Swedish one by name
With nice new tires from Japan
Neighbors got one the same
The coffee comes from Bogotá
Chocolate from West Berlin
The whiskey hails from Canada
And my ale’s from Ireland

But the music’s from the fifty states
The good old USA
Those are the tunes I like to play
And that’s the way I’ll stay

There’s a Wal-mart going up next door
With China in every isle
Bright red Indonesian shoes
You can even get a Hong Kong smile
Korea made my kid’s baseball glove
And Taiwan made his bike
We all keep warm with Norway fleece
And Italian boots look nice





Got a belt from Guatemala
And sandals from Peru
The food I eat is from Mexico
And my t-shirt’s from there too
I wear my Scottish sweater
With my Honduran pants
Only other thing I know for sure is
Who gives a rip about France

We play guitars made in Kalamazoo
Montana mandos are the best
The banjos come from Burlington
It plays when the fiddle rests
Not much wrong with Texas swing
And delta has the blues
Kentucky gave us bluegrass
You can feel it in your shoes

So there’s lots of stuff we use today
That comes from everywhere
When we sit down to play some tunes
It’s American music we share
The cowboys sang high lonesome
From the mountains in the west
But from my kitchen table
Are the songs I like the best