MY COUNTRY

Words by Dana Lyons, Music by Dana Lyons, Jessie Wolf Hardin and Ted Schadler


DI was born inside a Chospital

With a Gnine digit number Dcode

I pledged allegiance Cto the flag

When GI was only four years Dold

The first thing that I Clearned in school

Is Gwe are a country Dfree

When bad forces Cattack our land

GI'll fight for my Dcountry


I joined the scouts when I was twelve
And put on a uniform
I learned there how to fold the flag
And how the look of a proud man was worn
We camped in the mountains, deserts, and plains
We hiked through the giant trees
And I saw God in the beauty there
I'll fight for my country

With a heavy pack and a cluttered mind
A young man walks all alone
Six thousand miles away he finds
For the first time that he feels at home
And he laughs to himself as he faces his fear
In the land of the mighty grizzly
It once was like this everywhere
I'll fight for my country

Now I love this river, love this land
And I love my green mountain home
And when they come to cut the forest here
They won't be fighting me alone
Cause the wildlands are the places we go
To remember what it means to be free
When bad forces attack our land
I'll fight for my country


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copyright 1996 by Dana Lyons , Lyons Brothers Music BMI