(Spooner) 



I'm proud 

to be an American 

I'm proud 

of the groovy things we've done 

There's television, free religion, Rock 'n' roll, Standard Oil, 

Times Square, Jimmy Darren, Corey Wells, and Smokey Bear, 

price reduction, reconstruction, Peace Corps, and lots more 

Culture that we got to lend 



I'm proud 

to be an American 

And I'm proud 

Had a great time bein' one 

There's your school and my school and both of us in high school, 

surfboards, cigarettes, homework, Southern Comfort 

Boy's dean was real mean, 

Made us keep our locker's clean 

Failed nearly every class 

Ditchin' was a gas 



I'm proud 

to be a young American 

I'm proud, just think about it 

All the far out things that we've begun 

There's revolution, constitution, land, sea, and air pollution, 

cold wars, hot wars, gas wars, and confrontutions, 

constipation, consternation, open hearted palpatations 

Muscular Dystrophy 



I'm proud to be an American 

Because we got department stores 

full of cheap guitars 

But when Sputnik plays 'em, you just go go go go 



I'm proud to be an American--we got two chickens in every garage 

And I wish every other kid could be one--in my country, 

the medium is the massage 

'Cause it's impossible to give 

Equality and justice to inferior foreigners 

too jealous to trust us 



Gimme your weak and your homeless 

How 'bout checkin' the oil ah, fella? 



I'm proud to be an American