Five For Fighting - The Last Great American Lyrics

This song was written for John McCain.

Belltrixe _ it was released in 1997. Not written for McCain. Not written for any person in general but for an ideal that we’ve all laid to rest.

@Kobayashi nope. John Ondradik himself said in a tweet he wrote this song for him. https://twitter.com/johnondrasik/status/1033572136550424577?s=19

The Last Great American
Five For Fighting

One
Two
One

Mr. Merry cries in his coffin oh
For days he says he can remember
And through the town the pallbearers sing old songs
Of a beautiful purple mountian
From every walk of life we've come
To see the last great American

So may I now present you the Speaker
Friends
He was a man of men
A man of gold
He had a (how to you say) ethical like sense
That's when the President started to giggle

And the children gave the blessing
Though the service weren't half done
Each of them sued the other one
For the last great American ou ou ou ouu
American
American da da daa

Merry reaches up
We bow our heads
He pulls the lid on down
His stone is read

Here lies old Merry
The man with the heart so spent
That in this day in age
Is sick of living

And judges argue letters
And fabric comes undone
For every daughter every son
Of the last great American

For every daughter every son
Of the last great American

Songwriters: John Ondrasik
The Last Great American lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Great song my favorite by Five for Fighting