An American Song Lyrics

My father bought a station wagon back in 1966

Use to take us driving on a Sunday through the Delaware sticks

Yeah my sister and my brother riding in the back

Watching 20 miles of railroad track

Disappear behind them like a poem that was way too long

While my dad tapped on the steering wheel and whistled an American song

My cousins came from New York every summer and we'd all sleep in tents

Never saw my uncle without the pork pie hat on his head

Yeah he and my dad would talk late into the night

Wondering if the world would ever be right

While us kids were upstairs laughing and fighting and carrying on

Singing different verses of the same American song

Second jobs, second shifts

second chances just like this

And not a second left to hate

American dreams and American plans

electric guitars in American bands

We were already great

My friend Salma came here when she was just 18

She worked hard, loved her new country, helped her neighbor, caught the American Dream

Every now and then she puts sneakers on

Runs smiling down the street in some marathon

And every now and then she gets to go back home to Qaraoun, Lebenon

Where she sings them her own version of a brand new American song

Yeah, she singing an American Song

Sing, sing, sing an American Song

Sing, sing, sing an American Song

Sing, sing, sing an American Song