DESCRIPTION:
Freestyle track from the Tacoma Ballet session. Words and music improvised. This song was banned by both a west coast college radio station for being anti-American and an east coast college radio station for being nationalistic foreigner bashing. Pissing off both (humorless) extremes, a rare treat~
Tamra Spivey: vocal
Ronnie Pontiac: guitar
Patty Schemel: drums
Diane Naegel: keys
Greta Brinkman: bass
Larry Schemel: guitar
Kayla Tabb: percussion

Recorded live and mixed by Wes Weresch
at Uptone, Tacoma WA
assisted by Dawn Pfund
mastered by Jack Endino

Welcome to America

Welcome to America
we got everything you could possibly not want
everything you could possibly not need
welcome to america

we got RV's
TVs, both kinds

welcome to America
we got everything your heart could desire
we got RVs and great big tires
and we know what you need to live

welcome to America
welcome to your native dream
welcome to what you see
is what you gotta kill for

and it's on the streets
and on TV
and on the billboards everywhere
you need this to live
you need this to live a good life in America

a good life awaits you on our shores
and all you need is more
all you need is more
you can find it everywhere
if you just work hard
you can have everything you need and more

and welcome to the end of the line
it's America, it wants to be your friend
and your mother

just give us your cold huddled masses
and we'll give them designer sunglasses
we'll make them filled with needs they didn't even know they had
give them some movie friends
give them everything and more
but give them what they need to live to be to just become

then you're looking for America
looking for America
looking for what you thought it was
a new life for you

howdy pardner, welcome to America
we're the Texans, and we know what's best
howdy pardner, you need some McDonalds like all the rest
we can come into your country and make it alot nicer than it is right now
I can tell you that
what's wrong with you people?
Don't you see, you need things
you need things from us,
in fact if you act like us
you'll be a lot happier,
you don't need that stinkin' culture of yours
it's old, throw it out, what's wrong with you?

welcome to america
welcome to america
welcome to america just follow the line
with everyone else
follow the line
like everyone else
and we'll fill you up with what you need
and we'll fill you up with what you see
and we'll fill you up with TV