Why don’t you sing about your Country they say, why don’t you write about your old fashioned way.
Your own true land has been forsaken for a grass that’s always greener (why don’t you sing they say).
Why do you sing about our red, white and blue. That union jack don’t mean nothing to you.
I’d trade this land of hope and glory for a star spangled banner. (Why don’t you sing they say).

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I want my sweet home Alabama, and Louisiana too. I want my sweet home Alabama, and my Texas too.

These streets of grey might show you where I was born, but to the black tops of Texas I belong.
I’d trade this land of hope and glory for a star spangled banner. (Why don’t you sing they say).

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