[Verse 1]
We got some trouble in our own back yard
Things are kinda tough, times are kinda hard
Got a lot of people living out in the street
People going hungry without nothing to eat
And in this land of plenty
This shouldn't be going on
We got enough for everybody
We just going to have to pass it along
Well, I'm glad about the fall of Communism
I'm glad about the Berlin wall
And I like seeing old Saddam bite the dust
In fact I'm glad about it all
And I believe in helping everybody
But when it comes to all them foreign loans
I think we ought to remember
That charity begins at home

[Chorus]
Yes it starts right now in
(America, America)
I know the sun is rising on a better day
(America, America)
We got the power and we know the way
(America, America)
Well, let me say a few words
About the red, white, and blue
(America, America)
I know you're going to do
It I believe in you

[Verse 2]
Now I been trying to figure this out
But there's something that I just don't know
How can you make things better when you
Take our jobs, and send 'um down to Mexico?
And then there was this big shot
From the land of the rising sun
He said the working people in America were lazy and dumb
Well let me tell you something Jack
The next time I go on a shopping trip
And take something off of the rack
If it don't say, "Made in the U.S.A."
I'm just going to put it back
We can't leave it to the politicians
Because they don't do nothing but talk
And it's we the people
That are going to have to walk the walk

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Well, we got the best dang farmers in the whole wide world
The fastest horses and the prettiest girls
We got the army, the navy, air force, and marines
The mightiest fighting force the world's ever seen
We the kinda people that can get things done
We're serving notice that we're still number one
We got the nerve(We got the nerve)
We got the will(We got the will)
We are all together because you know that we are still

[Chorus]