Oh,
beautiful for spacious skies
Except
for the ones filled with our childrens’ cries.
This
land is your land, this land is my land
One of the 2nd amendment, lots of guns, and parents' mournful sighs.
My
country ‘tis of thee
With
our AK-47s and many rounds
Let
music swell the breeze
Let mothers
grieve their dead children, hear those anguished sounds.
Mine
eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
And
the Supreme Court rules that the right to bear arms is an individual right
In
the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
And
somewhere along the line the NRA has become our nation's blight.
God
Bless America, land that I love
Make
weapons of mass destruction easy to obtain
Hurrah
for the flag of the free
And
fill our airwaves with vitriol and white nationalism, our saddest refrain.
I
pledge thee my allegiance, America, the bold
More
guns, more violence, more mass shootings, so many lives wasted
Oh,
I wish I was in the land of cotton
Where
the seeds of racism were planted, watered, and harvested.
I’m
proud to be an American
Where
I can own as many guns and ammunition as I desire
God
bless America, My home sweet home
And
when the dead are counted, never putting white supremacy on the funeral pyre.
Give
me your tired, your poor
Especially
if you are white and educated and wealthy
My
native country, thee, land of the noble free
And
with the NRA owning our congress as far as I can see.
Oh,
say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
News
of more mass killings in El Paso Dayton Uvalde Nashville make for fitful sleep
O
beautiful for patriot dream
The
caskets all in a row, we offer our thoughts and prayers, words pretty cheap.
You aren’t the only one weeping today.
ReplyDeleteNo, there are many of us. May God have mercy on us all. And may we find our way out of this debacle that we are in.
DeleteSad that our songs can be edited in this way and be more true than the original versions.
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking time to read these words. Means a lot.
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