{"id":21014,"date":"2024-07-08T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:32:22","slug":"proud-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/proud-to-be-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[Intro] - - <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D\">[ A<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"A\">E<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">D<\/span>   <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D\">A<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"A\">E<\/span> D<span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\"> ]<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 1] - - If [A] tomorrow all the things were gone I'd [D] worked for all my life, and I [Bm] had to start again with just my [G] family and my [E] wife.\r\n[A] I'd thank my lucky stars to be [F#m] livin' here today. Cause the [Bm] flag still stands for freedom, and they [F#m] can't take that away. [D] \r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - And I'm [E] proud to be an American, Where at [D] least I know I'm [A] free. And I [E] won't forget the men who died who [D] gave that right to [A] me.\r\nAnd I gladly [F#m] stand up [A] next to you  and de-[D]-fend her still [A] today.  Cause there [Bm] ain't no doubt I [A] love this land. God [D] bless the [E] USA[A] \r\n<\/span> \r\n[Interlude]\r\n<span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D\">[ D<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"A\">A<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">G  <\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D\">D<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"A\">A<\/span> <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">G ]<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 2] - - From the [A] lakes of Minnesota to the [D] hills of Tennessee.  [Bm] Across the plains of Texas, from [G] sea to shining [E] sea.\r\nFrom [A] Detroit down to Phoenix, and [F#m] New York to LA\r\nWell there's [Bm] pride in every American heart, and its [F#m] time we stand and say [D] \r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS }\r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n \r\n <span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\"> <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_3\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] &#8211; &#8211; [ A E D A E D ] [Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; If [A] tomorrow all the things were gone I&#8217;d [D] worked for all my life, and I [Bm] had to start again with just my [G] family and my [E] wife. [A] I&#8217;d thank my &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/proud-to-be-an-american\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proud to be an American<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-patriotic-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}