Your Roots Are Phony
from Brian Woodbury and his Popular Music Group by Brian Woodbury
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lyrics
Your roots are phony
Never were a cowboy
Never crossed a prairie
In a covered wagon
Just a lot of strangers
Who never like the indians
And a lot of africans
Taken from their homeland
Your roots are phony
Never gave thanksgiving
Never carried muskets
Never carved a turkey
Just a lot of pilgrims
And a lot of puritans
Wiping out a wilderness
Calling it a nation
Your rooors are phony
Wearing wigs and wooden teeth
Lying ’bout a cherry tree
Throwing dollars cross the water
Thousands of foot soldiers
One valley forge
Down on their luck
Face in the muck
Your roots are phony
Didn’t hang together
Not in god you trusted
Or one composed of many
This land is your land
No land of opportunity
Just a great big continent
And the concept money
Your roots are phony
Hauling the revival tent
Putting on a minstrel show
Selling frontier medicine to
Thousands of panhandlers
No motherlode
Rakin’ the muck,
Makin’ a buck
Your roots are phony
It’s a show on broadway
Where they sing all bluesy
And cry because it’s heavy
Your roots are showing,
Like some bleach blonde chorus girl
Waiting to go platinum
Believin’ your baloney
Your roots are phony.
You’re an injun-giver
Like some yankee doodle
Who calls a feather noodle
Never kept a treaty
Or lost a war you didn’t start
Stick this feather in your heart
And call a phony “phony”
Never were a cowboy
Never crossed a prairie
In a covered wagon
Just a lot of strangers
Who never like the indians
And a lot of africans
Taken from their homeland
Your roots are phony
Never gave thanksgiving
Never carried muskets
Never carved a turkey
Just a lot of pilgrims
And a lot of puritans
Wiping out a wilderness
Calling it a nation
Your rooors are phony
Wearing wigs and wooden teeth
Lying ’bout a cherry tree
Throwing dollars cross the water
Thousands of foot soldiers
One valley forge
Down on their luck
Face in the muck
Your roots are phony
Didn’t hang together
Not in god you trusted
Or one composed of many
This land is your land
No land of opportunity
Just a great big continent
And the concept money
Your roots are phony
Hauling the revival tent
Putting on a minstrel show
Selling frontier medicine to
Thousands of panhandlers
No motherlode
Rakin’ the muck,
Makin’ a buck
Your roots are phony
It’s a show on broadway
Where they sing all bluesy
And cry because it’s heavy
Your roots are showing,
Like some bleach blonde chorus girl
Waiting to go platinum
Believin’ your baloney
Your roots are phony.
You’re an injun-giver
Like some yankee doodle
Who calls a feather noodle
Never kept a treaty
Or lost a war you didn’t start
Stick this feather in your heart
And call a phony “phony”
credits
from Brian Woodbury and his Popular Music Group,
released April 17, 1992
bass Richard Crawford; snare cymbals, glockenspiel D.J. Bonebrake; fife, piccolo Karyn Hoesli; background vocals Elma Mayer; vocals, guitar Brian Woodbury; bass, percussion and winds recorded by Paul DuGre and Michael Webster at Paul & Mike's, Los Angeles
bass Richard Crawford; snare cymbals, glockenspiel D.J. Bonebrake; fife, piccolo Karyn Hoesli; background vocals Elma Mayer; vocals, guitar Brian Woodbury; bass, percussion and winds recorded by Paul DuGre and Michael Webster at Paul & Mike's, Los Angeles
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Brian Woodbury Los Angeles, California
Brian Woodbury is a Los Angeles composer, lyricist and bandleader who writes musicals, post-modern jazz compositions, quirky pop, country songs and music for children's TV.
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