I Won't Go Back to the U.S.A.
Written and performed by American Dan
A shanty about never going back to the United States ever again. Ever.
This piece was written by an American immigrant to Australia, who is also from a family of immigrants to America.
To protect the identity (both name and voice) of the author, he is going by the name 'American Dan.' Ask him how it's supposed to be sung for the original melody.
LYRICS
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I won’t go back to the USA, I won’t go back to the USA
Lord, banish me from the land of the free
I won’t go back to the USA
Delete your social media, and grab your burner phone
Drop 3k, you’re on your way to the place that you call home
Thirteen hours later, T.S.A. pulls you aside
Interrogates your heritage, and they might abduct your child
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Why did we ever go there? I’d ask my great grand dad
To fight fascists in Italy when he was just a lad
And now I fight the fascists with words, and votes today
Hope it works ‘cause I don’t want to go back to the fucking USA
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“What do you for work, mate?” People ask sometimes
I inform the public, it’s increasingly a crime
So if you wonder why I have a calm demeanor
They'll cancel my PR if I’m “deemed of poor character”
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It’s not that bad you say? Have you seen it recently?
We’ve rolled some human rights back to 1963
It’s a bullshit deal for me as well ‘cause I’m a human being
ICE will kill you in the street, and shoot you just for breathing
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(slowly)
Why’d you pick Australia? It's a fuck of a time to come
To buy a house it takes 2 mil, are you that fucking dumb?
I hear your point but to be fair, it wasn’t in the plan
But I love it here, in the land of weak beer, and there’s heaps of dudes named Dan
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