Descendents – Merican (Guitar)

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we flipped our finger to the king of england

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stole our country from the indians

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with god at our side and guns in our hands

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we took it for our own

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a nation dedicated to liberty

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justice and equality

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doesn't look that way to you

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it doesn't look that way to me

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the sickest joke i know

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listen up man, i'll tell you who i am

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just another stupid american

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you don't wanna listen

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you don't wanna understand

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so finish up your drink and go home

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i come from the land of ben franklin

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Twain and Poe and Walt whitman

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otis redding, ellington

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the country that i love

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but it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan

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haymarket riot and the great depression

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Joe McCarthy, Vietnam

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the sickest joke i know

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i'm proud and ashamed

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every fourth of july

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you got to know the truth

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before you say that you got pride

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Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns

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straight to hell we go