I've traveled
all around this country
In my time, I thought I'd seen it all
But today I took a de tour
down a back room
Through a little town
whose name I can't recall
There were old men on benches
playing checkers
Children playing hopscotch 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
A chill rose up like mountains on my skin
Overcome with the feeling that I knew
I was seeing America all
over again
Americana,
pictures of a people proud and free
Americana, and I'll keep
holding to the dream
You're still what
living means to me
You know this song is
very special to me
because it gave me a chance to say some things
that I wanted to say about our great country
and also give me a chance
to bring a lot of my friends in the studio
we all gathered around the mic and sang
you can hear them on the record
a matter of fact
and if I get you folks just to
sing the one word
Americana and I'll tell you when to come in
I knew the stop would throw me off my schedule
saw parked around behind the five and
There's something about a small town
in the summer
Like a Norman Rockwell
picture back in time
Kids re portin' that the
wreck's also the fountain
Like we did before they built
the shopping mall
And 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 superhighway
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
Everybody sing, here we go.
Americana
Pictures of a people
proud and free
Americana
And I'll keep holding to the dream
You're still what living means
to me
Americana,
pictures of a people proud
and free
Americana, and I'll keep
holding to the dream
You're still what living means to me
You