Charlie Daniels Celebrates Our Nation's Birthday: My Beautiful America
I have just completed a leg of our 2015 tour that has taken me across the entire heartland of America, Pacific to Atlantic, and once again I'm deeply touched by what this country means to me.As the 239th Birthday of the greatest nation the world has never known approaches, I can think of no better way to use the Soapbox space this week than by celebrating the greatness of the blessed United States of America, by sharing a piece I wrote years ago that describes my feelings for my homeland.This soapbox will be the most current until Monday July 6th.Happy Fourth of July, my brothers and sisters and I hope you'll enjoy "My Beautiful America.My Beautiful AmericaHave you ever spent the late afternoonWatching the purple shadows deepen in the Arizona desert?Or seen a herd of Elk plough their wayThrough waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dawn?Did you ever see the sun go down in Hawaii Have you ever spent the late afternoonWatching the purple shadows deepen in the Arizona desert?Or seen a herd of Elk plough their wayThrough waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dawn?Did you ever see the sun go down in HawaiiOr seen the stormy waves break over the rockbound coast of MaineOr have you ever see an eagle fly up out of the mists of AlaskaOr a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakota badlands?Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, barbecue in CarolinaOr the chicken wings in Buffalo?Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Macon, or cornbread in Birmingham?Or briskets slow cooked over hill country mesquite wood?Did you ever drink the water from a gurgling branch in Utah,Or stand on the mountain above El Paso Del NorteAnd see the lights twinkling clear over into MexicoDid you ever jingle horses in the pre dawn stillness of a perfect Texas dayAnd watch their shod hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock?Or tended a trot line on a foggy Carolina morning,Or heard the distant love song of a lovesick whippoorwillOn a pristine Tennessee late night?Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument?Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi,Or been to the Daddy of Em All in Cheyenne, WyomingOr seen the mighty Vols run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lakeshore Drive at nightOr the New England foliage in the fall,Or the summer beauty of the Shenandoah valley,Or Indiana covered with new snow?Did you ever see a herd of wild horses running freeAcross the empty spaces of Nevada?Or catch a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream,Or marveled at the tall ships docked in the harbor at Baltimore?Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the bluegrass,Or the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoonOr driven the lonely stretches of old Route 66Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worshipOn an early Sunday, in some small town in the Deep South?Or passed through the Redwood Forest just as the sun was going down?Have you ever been to Boise or Baxley or Beaufort or Billings?Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffolk or San AngeloHave you ever seen the falls at NiagaraThe Ice Palace in Saint PaulOr the Gateway to the West?This then is America!The land God blesses with everythingAnd no Eiffel Tower: No Taj Mahal,No Alps, No AndesNo native hut, nor Royal PalaceCan rival her awesome beauty,Her diverse population, her monolithic majesty.America the FreeAmerica the mightyAmerica the beautifulI pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of AmericaAnd to the republic for which it standsOne nation under God, indivisiblewith liberty and justice for all.
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XXJefferson51
9 years ago
May God bless America as we approach our 239th birthday as an exceptional nation and people.
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XXJefferson51
9 years ago
What do you think?Pray for our troops, and for the peace of Jerusalem.God Bless AmericaCharlie Daniels
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