America The Ugly lyrics and chords

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America The Ugly
Written and recorded by Tom T. Hall

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There was a man came to see the USA from a foreign land
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To photograph the progress of dear old Uncle Sam
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He got off the boat in New York went down to the Bowery
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I know what the man went to photograph and to see

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There were hopeless hungry  livin' dead
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Winos who sell their souls for a bottle of a cheapest red
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That's the picture that he wanted and that's what he got they say
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America the ugly today

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He went to the Appalachians and he saw what we all have seen
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Where people live on bread and soup fat back and pinto beans
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He saw the hungry children and he photographed their ragged clothes
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I guess we're gonna try to tell him that it ain't so

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There were good men standin' around with nothin' to do
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Pregnant young women who didn't even have a pair of shoes
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The man got his pictures and what are we goin' to say
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America the ugly today

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Then he went to the Medicare centers and he saw the old people there
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It seems that the young generation just didn't want 'em in their hair
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He saw the poor man workin' it out while the mighty rich lives high
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And my friend that brings a gleam to the enemy's eyes

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There were some folks had plenty and some had none at all
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The enemy knows when a heart gets hard the country is bound to fall
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If we get heads and hearts together we won't have to hear them say
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America the ugly today  America the ugly today

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