Takin' My Country Back
Author: David A. Kent
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Country music's got mamas and daddys
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We got bar rooms and old heartbreak songs
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But I'm here today to stand up and say
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How I feel about my home sweet home
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What's left, what's right and what's wrong...and
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I'm taking my country back
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Son, you ain't been doin' her right
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Oh, I been watchin' you and I don't like
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How you've been treatin' my stars and stripes
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You took our jobs and sent 'em overseas
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Now we owe billions to the red Chinese
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You blew the budget and you botched Iraq
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So I'm taking my country back.
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We had a bundle in the treasury drawer
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More than there had ever been there before
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But every day we're drownin' deeper in debt
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Maybe four years should be all you get
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Then you gave tax breaks to the millionaires
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And tried to make the workin' man pay
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But you can't tax a man when his jobs not there
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Now look at where we are today...hey
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I'm taking my country back
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Son, you ain't been doin' her right
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Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like
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How you been treatin' my stars and stripes
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You've got too many fancy friends for me
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The Saudis treat you like you're royalty
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You blew the budget and you botched Iraq
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Now I'm takin' my country back
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Now I can understand why you were hot
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'Cause Bin Laden never did get caught
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So you said we had Saddam to blame
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Tried to tell us it was all the same
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But now the years roll by and our kids keep dyin'
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You don't even have a plan to bring 'em home
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And those W.M.D. you promised on T.V.
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Hey admit it, you figured it wrong...so I'm takin' my country back
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Now you don't know my name, but you know who I am
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I'm your everyday work hard, play hard
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Raise kids and pray hard common man
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And lord knows I love this land...that's why
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I'm taking my country back
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Son, you ain't been doin' her right
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Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like
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How you been treatin' my stars and stripes
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You say "unite" but you divide us more
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Cussin' each other on the Senate floor
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Ain't we supposed to be above all that?
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Hey I'm taking my country back
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I got my family and my church and flack
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Now I'm takin' my country back