Tom T. Hall - America The Ugly video free download
"If we get heads and hearts together we won't have to hear them say
America the ugly today." - Tom T. Hall (complete lyrics below)
Vocals: Tom T. Hall
Words & Music: Tom T. Hall
Original Album: I Witness Life (Mercury Records - 1969)
Lyrics:
There was a man who came to see the USA from a foreign land
To photograph the progress of dear old Uncle Sam
He got off the boat in New York, went down to the Bowery
I know what the man went to photograph and to see
There were hopeless, hungry, living dead
Winos who'd sell their souls for a bottle of a cheapest red
That's the picture that he wanted
And that's what he got they say, America the ugly today
He went to the Appalachians and he saw what we all have seen
Where people live on bread and soup, fat back and pinto beans
He saw the hungry children and he photographed the ragged clothes
I guess we're gonna try to tell him that it ain't so
There were good men standin' around with nothing to do
Pregnant young women who didn't even have a pair of shoes
The man got his pictures and what are we going to say,
America the ugly today
Then he went to the medicare centers and he saw the old people there
It seems that the young generation just didn't want them in their hair
He saw the poor man workin' it out while the mighty rich lives high
And my friend that brings a gleam to the enemy's eyes
There were some folks had plenty and some had none at all
The enemy knows when a heart gets hard, the country is bound to fall
If we get heads and hearts together we won't have to hear them say
America the ugly today, America the ugly today
Comments
9 years ago
Tom Swinburn
Tom T. is the conscience of America. Perhaps more than any other performer he has laid it out for all to see. He never got as big as Johnny Cash, but he carries the same kind of message. Young and old, poor and rich, black and white, he speaks to YOU. Listen.9 years ago
D'Ascoyne
I challenge any big country artist of today to do a cover of this song live. 9 years ago
1001orpheus
赤じゃ！9 years ago
Justin Monds
if your not part of the solution,you are just a part of the problem10 years ago
Bonnie Auvenshine
Tom was kinda my uncle. Lived with my Dad's family in Olive Hill Kentucky. Wish I could meet him. My dad thought the world of him. Even played for some of his records so I understand.10 years ago
Oscar B
Sad but all these years after he wrote this song , not very much he described has changed .10 years ago
William Dean
Monster 1175--not only are you uninformed, you are illiterate. A product of the public day care system, maybe? You have a fifth grade mentality and literacy rate.10 years ago
larry stevens
America just keeps getting uglier and uglier.10 years ago
William Kimbler
How prophetic, look when it was recorded and then look out your window.10 years ago
Joe Kelly
Tom T. was at the top of his game. Strong vocal & in pitch too.10 years ago
bofeces1
anybody notice Tom T. Hall is always trying to tell rednecks what they need to hear but most of the time is goes right over their head10 years ago
SARAH Y HUTSON
CAN ANYONE UPLOAD TOM T HALL'S SONG CALLED THE GIRL IN WEST VIRGINIA WHO READ THE SAME BOOK ALL THE TIME??10 years ago
SaturdaySportsman1
We need to listen to this song again today.11 years ago
Steven Spolar
Whoa sir, put down the gun and listen to the entire song. You are proof that some citizens of this country just get in the way of themselves and cannot be helped. This song is simply an account of what was seen, the raw truth unedited. The children may not have known they were poor, but the adults knew damn well and those that say they did not were in deep depths of denial. The politicians love citizens like you who refuse to see the truth - you deny there is anything wrong and they will too. .11 years ago
Steven Spolar
Might be your player or the playlist you are trying to play it in is having problems. Just checked it out now and it is definitely playing. Try playing it outside of the playlist.11 years ago
tim9191ful
why won't it play?11 years ago
J William Kimbler
Like Bush said to his base, "we are the have and the have mores”. youtube. com/ watch?v=J-MjaZUG6_A&feature=related11 years ago
billy sellers
Me too! My mom ad dad almost killed themselves taking care of their three children. We all pulled cotton, hoe'd cotton,worked at dad's gas station or the cotton gin. I didn't get parts in school because of my clothes. Neither did my brother or sister. But you know what, I spent 28 yrs. as a Texas State Trooper, My brother is a millionaire my sister is retired and doing well. And oh yeah. I retired from my troopers job and have been a pastor the past eleven yrs. We kept Jesus in our. Lif12 years ago
mahala2345
This song sums up America in its current state with economic troubles and scandals12 years ago
monster1175
he also saw that the big % of the houses in NY belong to the Jew wen they come to this country broken . were do they get the monney? please do not tell me that they did it working because i never see ,saw, will see a JEW working.Related Videos
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