America High

We cut through the backwoods of the Harrison farm

Jumped over the rock fence under Mr. Jenkins' barn

Made a beeline down Choctaw Bend to the Pawnee Bridge

and ran into town

Raced that train to the tracks without slowing down

We went to see the mason man at Old Man James' store

And those rocking chairs weren't rocking, the answers

are gone, and there's a sign that said "Closed" on the

door

Turned around and ran back to the tracks to who the

kids had come to call the Reverend Railroad Miller

Jack

And he'd give you sermons and songs, all his rights

and what's wrongs

I would string this guitar with a flag across his lap

and he'd say

"Settle down now, you kids are gonna be okay

Settle down now, the Boys and Girls are fighting for

you today

Settle down now, I'm gonna tell you what you wanna

believe"

Well he said "you dedicate your soul for God, Country

and Rock 'n' Roll

And get America High

And get America High

We filed them questions one by one and he knocked 'em

down to the ground while we stood there in line

He said "I fought with your Daddy, Child, off the

coast of Hell in the summer of 1969"

Well I was born in the Vietnam War and he died later

that same year

But this country is my rock and my soul rolls from my

faith in God, and that's what keeps me here

Settle down now, you kids are gonna be okay

Settle down now, the Boys and Girls are fighting for

you today

Settle down now, settle down

Well he said "you dedicate your soul for God, Country

and Rock 'n' Roll

And get America High

And get America High

And get America High