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Welcome to the blog n roll series I call Lyric Today, Hear it Tomorrow, where you can read the lyrics before the songs are recorded.  Yes, it's called Lyric Today, Hear it Tomorrow, but that's not always the way it works out.

The songs I come up with are like cars crowding the freeway in my mind.  Some survive the traffic jam and others sputter out and die on the side of the road.  So some of these songs will never be heard, but they will be read, even if I'm the only one that ever reads them. 

Without further ado, I give you:

This Ain't My Country

words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008

my country's built

on Buck, and Merle and Johnny

my country's built on Conway Twitty too

my country's stands

on heartbreak songs from George Jones

this ain't my country

no, it belongs to you

chorus:

this ain't my country

this ain't my music

this ain't the land

of opportunity

this ain't my country

it is your country

won't someone bring

my country back to me

my country needs to hear

straight from the heart and

my country needs some authenticity

no fancy orchestration or technology

I wish you'd give my country back to me

(chorus)

this is your country

it ain't my country

there ain't a note I can identify

(chorus)