This Is OUR Country - Posted at the request of John

[sharonc]

We posted the following on the home page of Mellencamp.com at John's request.  Enjoy!

Now that the election campaign is behind us, let's look forward to a new era of cooperation and put our partisan differences aside.

As John has often said, "if you want change, it begins with you..." and working together is the way to get things done.

"Our Country"  - Written by John Mellencamp

Well I can stand beside Ideals I think are right And I can stand beside The idea to stand and fight I do believe There’s a dream for everyone This is our country There’s room enough here For science to live And there’s room enough here For religion to forgive And try to understand All the people of this land This is our country From the east coast To the west coast Down the Dixie Highway Back home This is our country That poverty could be Just another ugly thing And bigotry would be Seen only as obscene And the ones that run this land Help the poor and common man This is our country

From the east coast To the west coast Down the Dixie Highway Back home This is our country The dream is still alive Some day it will come true And this country it belongs To folks like me and you So let the voice of freedom Sing out through this land This is our country From the east coast To the west coast Down the Dixie Highway Back home This is our country From the east coast To the west coast Down the Dixie Highway Back home This is our country

Our Country Video

[geegee]

this is well and good. however, to achieve the american dream is to find a job. to live the american dream is to have a job, however humble it may be.

[geegee]

john i know you read this forum. youre patronage is to be acknowledged as you have written songs that point issues of concern. but heres a video that i had such a hard time finding, and i believe that the message takes it a lot farther then what any song or poem or art can do. at the end of the video you will hear what the real answer is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqBynKxAiiI