Country music star Toby Keith has released a new single celebrating the birth of America ahead of Independence Day to mark its 245th birthday, though the song will also provoke some thought about where the country is today and where it could be headed.
The song, “Happy Birthday, America,” is not Keith’s first patriotic offering: Earlier releases include the smash, “American Soldier,” along with “American Ride,” “Made In America,” and “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (Angry American).”
In an interview Friday with “Fox & Friends,” Keith debuted his new single and said he was inspired to write the song last summer during a massive boat parade and fireworks display amid the then-worsening COVID-19 pandemic.
“All the boats had radios synced to the same radio station” which played music to correlate with the display, said the award-winning musician. “So you could hear the same thing all the way across the lake.”
(Video: Fox News)
He then said one of his tunes, ‘Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue,’ began to play. “Everybody was honking their horns, screaming and singing…I was like, ‘wow.’ It was in the middle of last summer and this country felt like a dumpster fire about then.
“So I said, ‘Happy Birthday, America, whatever’s left of ya,'” he continued, adding that he wrote the song a few days later.
“I live in the heartland, and it just feels like everybody you talk to has got the same worries,” Keith continued. “Feels like democracy’s in trouble and…it just feels like the politicians on both sides aren’t gettin’ the job done.”
Here are the lyrics:
Happy birthday, America
It’s the Fourth of July
I’ll get to wake up in your freedom
But sometimes I wonder why
Seems like everybody’s pissin’
On the red, white, and blue
Happy Birthday, America
Whatever’s left of you.
You were the darlin’ when you saved the world, WWI and II
France would just be part of Germany now if it hadn’t been for you
Now your children wanna turn you into something other than yourself
They burn your flag in their city streets more than anybody else.
Happy birthday, America
It’s the Fourth of July
I’ll get to wake up in your freedom
But sometimes I wonder why
Seems like everybody’s pissin’
On the red, white, and blue
Happy Birthday, America
Whatever’s left of you.
Who they gonna count on when you’re not there to take their call
Will the world keep right on spinnin’ without the greatest of ’em all
Without the helping hand of God your days are numbered my old friend
We’re sure gonna miss you girl, you were the best that’s ever been.
Happy birthday, America.
All the broken down cities by the left’s design
And the right can’t seem to get it right most of the time.
Every time I go to town and vote I just come home with the blues
The lesser of two evils is all we ever get to choose.
Happy birthday, America
It’s the Fourth of July
I’ll get to wake up in your freedom
But sometimes I wonder why
Seems like everybody’s pissin’
On the red, white, and blue
Happy Birthday, America
Whatever’s left of you.
Happy Birthday, America…
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Jon is a staff writer for BizPac Review with 30 years' worth of reporting experience, as well as an author and U.S. Army veteran. He has a BA in political science from Ashford University and an MA in national security studies/intelligence analysis from American Military University.
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