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R​.​O​.​C​.​K. In The U​.​S​.​A. (live)

from Covers V (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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Song/Group: R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (live)/Departure
Album Title: The Santairs Presents: Covers V (2024 Remaster)
©℗ 2023-Imagery Records/MINE Music Publishing
Released on: 10-26-23

R.O.C.K. IN THE U.S.A. (live)
(2:36)

Written by: John Mellencamp (1986)
Original Artist: John Cougar Mellencamp
Covered by: Departure

Players: LOREN ADAMS—lead vocal, keyboard
WAYDE K. BROWN—bass, backing vocal
KEITH NORTON—guitar, backing vocal
KEVIN GLANTZ—guitar, backing vocal
PHIL SCHMIDT—drums

Engineer: Big Ken & Departure

Date: 1986
Recorded and Mixed at a home studio in Federal Way, WA.
Remixed and Mastered: MINE Music Studio in Auburn, WA.

lyrics

THEY COME FROM THE CITIES
AND THEY COME FROM THE SMALLER TOWNS
BEAT UP CARS WITH GUITARS AND DRUMMERS
GOIN CRACK BOOM BAM
CHORUS
R.O.C.K. IN THE U.S.A.
R.O.C.K. IN THE U.S.A.
R.O.C.K. IN THE U.S.A., YEAH, YEAH!
ROCKIN' IN THE U.S.A.
SAID GOODBYE TO THEIR FAMILIES
SAID GOODBYE TO THEIR FRIENDS
WITH PIPE DREAMS IN THEIR HEADS
AND VERY LITTLE MONEY IN THEIR HANDS
SOME ARE BLACK AND SOME ARE WHITE
AIN'T TO PROUD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT
WITH THE BLIND FAITH OF JESUS YOU KNOW THAT THEY JUST MIGHT, BE
ROCKIN' IN THE U.S.A.
HEY!
VOICES FROM NOWHERE
AND VOICES FROM THE LARGER TOWNS
FILLED OUR HEAD FULL OF DREAMS
TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
THERE WAS FRANKIE LYMAN-BOBBY FULLER-MITCH RYDER
(THEY WERE ROCKIN')
JACKIE WILSON-SHANGRA-LAS-YOUNG RASCALS
(THEY WERE ROCKIN')
SPOTLIGHT ON MARTHA REEVES
LET'S DON'T FORGET JAMES BROWN
ROCKIN' IN THE U.S.A.
ROCKIN' IN THE U.S.A.
HEY!
CHORUS

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from Covers V (2024 Remaster), released February 28, 2016
Departure

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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