Only in america

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# From the liner notes to _The Brill Building Sound_: At the height of the civil rights furor, Barry Mann wrote a song for the Drifters, one he felt strongly about since it incorporated a lot of personal feelings in lyrics such as 'Only in America / Land of opportunity / Can they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me / Only in America / Where they preach the Golden Rule / Will they start to march when my kids want to go to school'. To Mann's dismay, Leiber & Stoller told him to rewrite it along less controversial lines. 'They said there's no way the Drifters could do this song,' he recalls. 'No one would play it'. At this point, record sales mattered less to him than voicing his message, but out of respect to Leiber & Stoller he went ahead and turned the song into this flag-waving anthem. Stoller later told the authors of _Behind The Hits_ that the Drifters were afraid of recording the revamped version. 'They thought they'd get too much flak. It would be too controversial. We felt it would make a strong ironic statement -- that it would be more effective -- four black guys singing aoubt what was obviously *not* taking place.' Resigned to the fact that the song was more suited to a whitebread pop group, Leiber & Stoller brought it to Jay & The Americans [some sources indicate that they used the same backing track]. It came out as the follow-up to their first hit, 'She Cried'. A decade later, Mann confessed, 'It just makes me cry now. It would've been a more honest song but I wasn't strong enough to stick to my guns.' "Only In America" (Leiber / Stoller / Mann / Weil) E D E D / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Verse 1: E D Only in America E D Can a guy from anywhere E D E Go to sleep a pauper and wake up a millionaire A G Only in America A G Can a kid without a cent A G A Get a break and maybe grow up to be President Chorus: D A/C# Only in America D A/C# Land of opportunity Bm F#m G A [1: B 2: E, to coda] Would a classy girl like you fall for a poor boy like me Verse 2: Only in America Can a kid who's washing cars Take a giant step and reach right up and touch the stars Only in America Could a dream like this come true A G A B E Could a guy like me start with nothing and end up with you Instrumental break: (chords as per Verse 1) [repeat chorus] Coda: E D E (Only in America) Poor boy like me (Only in America) Poor boy like me (Only in America) Only in America [repeat to fade] -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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