Moe Bandy - Americana

Lyrics

I've traveled all around this country

In my time I thought I'd seen it all

But today I took a detour down a back road

Through a little town whose name I can't recall

There were old men on benches playing checkers

Children playing hop scotch on the square

And high above a statue of an unknown soldier

Old glory was waving in the air

Suddenly I realized what I'd too long forgotten

Chill rose up like mountains on my skin

Overcome with a feeling

I knew I was seeing

America all over again

Americana

Picture of a people proud and free

Americana

And I'll keep holding to the dream

You're still what living means to me

I knew the stop would throw me off my schedule

But I parked around behind the Five and Dime

There's something about a small town in the Summer

Like a Norman Rockwell picture back in time

Kids were courting at the Rexall soda fountain

Like we did before they built the shopping mall

I saw so many reasons why I love this country

You know some things never really change at all

As I left the two-lane road

And pulled back on that super high way

I thought of what I'd seen back in that town

And it hit me like a freight train

That a stone's throw from the fast lane

America is still safe and sound