Remarks:
This came out in 1985 but never charted. It does not even have proper lyrics online.
See also:
- songs, the 1980s
- other songs that lacked (or still lacks) lyrics:
Lyrics:
Don’t you love America, my favourite country?
Don’t you love America, land of democracy?
Don’t you love America, my favourite country?
Don’t you love America, land of democracy?
Well, from California to the coast of Maine
From the days of pickin’ cotton and sugar cane
From the mountain tops to the rolling hills
Baseball, hot dogs and all the cheap thrills
There’s New York City and Kalamazoo
White, black, red, yellow and of course the Jews
Democracy is the land of the free
But we’re all gonna die if there’s a World War III
Lebanon, Beirut, Iraq and Iran
Arabians, Russians don’t like Americans
Revolutionary terrorists swarm like bees
Take American hostages across the seas
But how long Reagan go for that?
Before he really gets mad and then he goes for a bat?
War!
Yes I’m talking World War III!
Destruction! The end of you and me!
Can we solve .. peace?
Can we solve .. love?
America
Unity
America
Peace
America
I don’t even like this country at all so I don’t see why any Black person would write a song praising this country. However, I do like Kurtis Blows’ The Breaks though.
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I can see why it didn’t Chart. AngelaRoselle, I think the song was trying to be ironic.
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Brother Kurtis Blow was merely attempting to expose Amerika’s long legacy of contradictions, you know, peace in theory but yet, war within their collective heart. The government says freedom for everyone but yet, centuries of slavery and subservience for Negroes only.
Perhaps the song never charted because there is waaaaay too much truth here! Amerika hates the truth, but love to speak of lies!
@Angelaroselle, you must think beyond the video to get a deeper meaning of the song.
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@ angelaroselle
I think he was being sarcastic. He talks about peace and democracy, yet behind him are pictures of warplanes and civil rights protests.
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@ angelaroselle
Along with the sarcasm, it also contains a big dose of Cold War anxiety that may not convey well to people who didn’t live through that time. It’s difficult now to fully remember, much less explain, how convinced many of us were in the ’80s that we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust, especially with Reagan having his finger on the button.
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Right, Solitaire makes a good point. When Kurtis Blow says:
he was not exaggerating: Reagan and Russia were a far bigger physical threat than Trump or terrorists are now.
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Remember Prince’s Ronnie Talk to Russia before it’s too late before you blow up the world. Prince Controversy album.
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Reagan almost destroyed the whole planet by joking around during a mic check. Sounds funny now, terrifying at the time.
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I never heard this Kurtis Blow joint I love the sarcasm and I can see why it didn’t chart to much truth.
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