I Come From America

Story Behind The Song

From the Billboard Top 10 album "Dust Bowl - American Stories" - tells the story of the emigrants who left the Plains and went to California's central valley, looking for work. They were not welcomed or wanted, however they never forgot who they were - Americans.

Song Description

From the Billboard Top 10 album "Dust Bowl - American Stories" - tells the story of the emigrants who left the Plains and went to California's central valley, looking for work. They were not welcomed or wanted, however they never forgot who they were - Americans.

Song Length 2:48 Genre Country - Americana, Country - Cowboy
Tempo Medium Fast (131 - 150) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Exultant, In High Spirits Subject Pride, Patriotic
Similar Artists Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks Language English
Era 1930 - 1939

Lyrics

I Come From America
© words and music Grant Maloy Smith

Can you see the Texas in my eyes?
I left her but she's still strong in me
We broke down in Kingman
so we walked to Bakersfield
Don't you know the mother road?

??I Come From America
America - America
I Come From America
America's from me

Can you hear the pilgrim in my voice?
Blown ashore by unforgiving winds
Beggars can't be choosers
but we choose to still be men
Don't you know - don't you know?

I Come From America
America - America
I Come From America
America's from me

We're the desperate and unwanted
We're the strangers
from the shanty side of town
Do my eyes look proud but haunted?
That's the destiny in me
That's the Texas that you see

Can you feel the prairie on my skin?
Baked and brown
With work and sweat and tears
Daddy always told me
That the dirt would take us in
Don't you know - don't you know?


I Come From America
America - America
I Come From America
America's from me

I Come From America
America - America
I Come From America
America's from me

Lyrics Grant Maloy Smith Music Grant Maloy Smith
Producer Grant Maloy Smith and Jeff Silverman Publisher Grant Maloy Smith
Performance Grant Maloy Smith Label Suburban Cowboy LLC.

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