My Strange Nation Has ocean on two sides And the ‘Bama Crimson Tide in the south Tilted slightly toward the north The immigrants pour forth Seeking Phoenix And life hand to mouth My strange nation Tilts sharply to the right With our leaders straight and white As our teeth Our population’s mixed But our election’s fixed In my Strange Nation America My Strange Nation Built on the backs of slaves Who were sailed here cross the waves From far away This cruel experiment Was ended by a president Who was both A republican … And Gay My Strange Nation Gave the Indians our germs They surrendered on our terms As in Died Their survivors filed appeals So we gave them roulette wheels In my Strange Nation America But my Strange Nation Has lost its mind again Sending young women and men Off to war For reasons that aren’t clear Unless you’re standing near To the rich and the righteous And the bored And my strange nation Enamored of the cross And who will win the toss Of the coin The circus and the bread Distract us from the dead In my Strange Nation America But my Strange Nation Will surely come around For you cannot hold us down for long We’ll sputter and we’ll cough And throw the despots off And recover the soul that makes us strong And my frustration Is just a product of My strange but loyal love For this land For its mountains and its lakes Tornadoes and earthquakes For its poets and pioneers For its fetishes and fears For its freedom of dissent For its greasy government And I will not change this stance I will not move to France. I will always hold out one more chance For my Strange Nation America.