Rate My Music - Janis Ian

You got Ma Rainey talkin' 'bout a jelly roll

Chuck Berry workin' on a mojo

Bessie Smith singin' bull dagger blues

Elvis twiching on the evening news

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That’s what America means to me

Gonna rate Walt Whitman, and Jean Cocteau

All the fags will have to go

Alexander the Great, Plato and such

Kids might catch it if they read too much

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Living in the land of liberty

Gonna rate all the dagos, the wops and the kikes

Gonna rate all the chinks and the towelhead types

Rate all the niggers, rate all the fags

Wrap it up tight in the american flag

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That’s what keeps this country free

I watched the news last night at nine

Saw a head blown off somebody’s spine

While the women moaned and the children screamed

Doesn’t anybody else think that’s obscene?

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That’s what America means to me

All you folks who bitch and moan

About the music kids buy and bring on home

Tell me just one thing before we’re done

Where’d their money coming from?

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That’s what keeps this country free