America The Ugly Lyrics

The song America The Ugly is performed by Tom T. Hall in the album named Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher in the year 1995 .



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

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

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

There were good men standin' around with nothing to do
Pregnant young women who didn't even have a pair of shoes
The man got his pictures
And what are we going to say, "America the ugly today"

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

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



Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher

Nov 1995

  1. Magnificent Music Machine
  2. A Million Miles To The City
  3. I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
  4. The Hitch-Hiker
  5. Ballad Of Forty Dollars
  6. I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
  7. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
  8. Strawberry Farms
  9. Watergate Blues
  10. I Want To See The Parade
  11. 100 Children
  12. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
  13. The Son Of Clayton Delaney
  14. The Old Side Of Town
  15. I Can't Dance
  16. Last Of The Drifters
  17. Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
  18. A Week In A Country Jail
  19. Spokane Motel Blues
  20. Homecoming
  21. Hello, We're Lonely
  22. Down At The Mall
  23. Fox On The Run
  24. Shoeshine Man
  25. Flat-Footin' It
  26. Old Five And Dimers Like Me
  27. Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
  28. More About John Henry
  29. Give Her My Best
  30. Pamela Brown
  31. I Flew Over Our House Last Night
  32. Molly And Tenbrooks
  33. The Monkey That Became President
  34. That's How I Got To Memphis
  35. Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
  36. Day Drinkin'
  37. Salute To A Switchblade
  38. Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
  39. Subdivision Blues
  40. America The Ugly
  41. Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
  42. Levi Jones
  43. Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
  44. I'm Forty Now
  45. Me And Jesus

America The Ugly