The bot tom of my
boots sure are get ting warm
There's a lot of holes
in this faded uniform
My hands are black with dirt
and so is my face
I ain't never been to hell,
but it couldn't be any
worse in this place.
Tell my wife don't worry,
cause I know what to do.
It makes her feel better sometimes,
but I don't know if it's true.
I know if I die, it's just my time to go.
But I pray to God every day
that I may get back home.
Well, when you've seen
what I've seen,
things don't seem so bad
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
and thank God for what you have
Cause I couldn't be raising
my family in this place
When I was born an American
by God's amazing grace
For the last 12 months
I've had a new address
The neighborhood smells like sewage
and the streets are lined with trash
You never know what's gonna be
the next thing to explode
But unlike these people,
I have another home
It breaks my heart to see these
kids out on the streets
Walking barefoot through the trash,
begging for something to eat
I give them what I got
just to let them know I care
And I thank God it's not my
son that's standing there
Well, when you've seen
what I've seen,
things don't seem so bad
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
And thank God for what you had
Because I couldn't be raising
my family in this place
But I was born an American
If you want to talk about it
you better keep it short
I got a lot of lost time
I got to make up for
I really don't care why Bush
went in to Iraq
I know what I done there
and I'm damn sure proud of that
If you got something bad
to say about the USA
You better say it before different ears
Lest you want to crawl away
And I'll laugh in your face
when you say you've got it bad
Until you spend some time
in the streets of Baghdad
Well, you've seen what I've seen,
things don't seem so bad
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
and thank God for what you have
Cause you couldn't be raising your family
in this place
But you were born an American