Happy 4th of July America!

[KickChick]

This week marks the first Independence Day celebration since Sept. 11. Songs about the terrorist attacks that were supposed to be performed on two holiday specials -- PBS' "A Capitol Fourth” and ABC's "In Search of America: A July 4th Musical Celebration” -- have been dropped because the networks say they set the wrong tone. (... and you thought KF was tough on censoring expletives!!)

 

Because this is one of the songs that was banned (... look thru the lyrics to find out why)

 

... I thought I would post the lyrics here in celebration of what it means to be an American! .... (.....an angry one at that!)

 

Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue

 

(The Angry American)

 

Appropriate Lyrics?

 

Lyrics By Toby Keith

 

American Girls

 

And American Guys

 

We'll always stand up and salute

 

We'll always recognize

 

When we see Old Glory flyin'

 

There's a lot of men dead

 

So we can sleep in peace at night

 

When we lay down our head.

 

My daddy served in the army

 

Where he lost his right eye

 

But he flew a flag out in our yard

 

Till the day that he died

 

He wanted my mother

 

My brother

 

My sister and me

 

To grow up and live happy

 

In the land of the free.

 

Now this nation that I love

 

Has fallen under attack

 

A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in

 

From somewhere in the back

 

Soon as we could see clearly

 

Through our big black eye

 

Man, we lit up your world

 

Like the Fourth of July.

 

Hey Uncle Sam put your name

 

At the top of his list

 

And the Statue of Liberty

 

Started shakin' her fist

 

And the eagle will fly

 

And there's gonna be hell

 

When you hear Mother Freedom

 

Start ringin' her bell

 

And it'll feel like the whole wide world

 

Is rainin' down on you

 

Brought to you courtesy

 

Of the Red, White and Blue.

 

Oh justice will be served

 

And the battle will rage

 

This big dog will fight

 

When you rattle his cage

 

And you'll be sorry that you messed with The U.S. of A.

 

'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass

 

It's the American way.

 

Hey Uncle Sam put your name

 

At the top of his list

 

And the Statue of Liberty

 

Started shakin' her fist

 

And the eagle will fly

 

And there's gonna be hell

 

When you hear Mother Freedom

 

Start ringin' her bell

 

And it'll feel like the whole wide world

 

Is rainin' down on you

 

Brought to you courtesy

 

Of the Red, White and Blue.

 

Oh, oh, of the Red, White and Blue

 

Oh, oh, of the Red, White and Blue.

 

COPYRIGHT 2002 TOKECO TUNES (BMI)

 

WRITTEN BY TOBY KEITH

 

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[ This Message was edited by: KickChick on 2002-07-03 08:09 ]

[ZR440]

Charlie Daniels ended up telling one of the networks to get bent because they didn't like one of the songs he wrote about Sept 11th. Too bad for the networks. They will miss having that good ol boy play the fiddle and so will we.

[Pacificshore]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICA........OOH RAH!!!

[karatekid1975]

Happy 4th everyone, and remember. Don't let those *******s (terrorists) scare us from partying on our country's birthday

 

Anyways, I gotta go pack. Going to PA for the 4th. My hunny's sister is throwing a huge party. See ya when I get back (friday).

 

 

[shotochem]

The 4th is to celebrate independence but we must not forget the price that has to be paid to continue our way of life. Here is something worh reading....... thank you Mr. Pitts,

 

By Leonard Pitts Jr. for the Miami Herald

 

Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001

 

We'll go forward from this moment

 

It's my job to have something to say.

 

They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.

 

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable *******.

 

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

 

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.

 

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.

 

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.

 

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

 

Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

 

IN PAIN

 

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel. Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of the United States and, probably, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

 

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

 

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.

 

In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.

 

THE STEEL IN US

 

You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering is put on hold.

 

As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

 

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know what you just started.

 

But you're about to learn.

 

Have a Happy and safe holiday......

 

 

[BlueDragon1981]

Happy 4th America and all you Forum Pals. This truly is the best country there is. (even though I cant stand president bush)

[ramcalgary]

happy b-day america

 

home of the brave

 

from your younger neighbor to the north eh

 

 

[OldRookie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!!!!

 

I heard Tobey Keith this a.m. on Bob & Tom (radio) talking about how that sorry excuse for a newsman Peter Jennings had banned him from the 4th of July special on ABC because lyricks of his song about 9-11-01 were too "Angry".....What a steaming pile of monkey #$^&*+"!!! Should we not be angry?!!!!!.......I won't even tie up the board with all the expletives about how I feel about this.....I could on & on..GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

 

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--Back in the Dojang! Choong Sil TKD & Aikido

 

[ This Message was edited by: OldRookie on 2002-07-04 01:18 ]

[G95champ]

Happy 4th everyone.

 

1776 we told King George we have had enough. We have hit a few bumps along the way but we are still going strong. Don't forget where we came from guys and think God for what we got. Only in Americia can we do the things we do.

 

God Bless the USA.

 

 

[Patrick]

Happy July 4th.