Akira The Don, Paul Harvey - Thank You God (FREEDOM TO CHAINS) lyrics

How come after thousands of
Years of experiment
Our new nation has come so far, so fast?
All this in less than two hundred years
What is the secret of our success?
Well, I think it had to do
With a basic American’s Creed
Perhaps it never passed a pioneer’s
Lips in this form, but if it had I think he
Would have said something like this
I believe in my God
In my Country and in Myself
I believe in my God
In my Country and in Myself
I know that sounds like a trite
Too simple thing to say
And yet it’s a rare man today who
Will dare to stand up and say
I believe in my God and
My Country and in Mysеlf and in that order
When the еarly American pioneer first turned


His eyes toward the west
There were only Indian trails or
Traces as they were called
For him to foll’er through the wilderness
Do you know today you can
Roller skate from Miami to Seattle
From San Diego to Plymouth Rock?
In this little bitty instant, as
Historical time is measured
Our 7% of the Earth’s population
Has come to possess
More than half of all the world’s good things
How come? Well sir
When that early pioneer turned his
Eyes toward the west he
Didn’t demand that somebody else
Look after him
He didn’t demand a free education
He didn’t demand a guaranteed rocking chair
At eventide he didn’t demand that
Somebody else take care of him if
He got ill or got old
There was an old fashioned philosophy in
Those days that a man was
Supposed to provide for his own
And for his own future
He didn’t demand a maximum amount of money
For a minimum amount of work
Nor did he expect pay for no work at all
Come to think of it he didn’t demand anything
That hard handed pioneer just
Looked out there at
The rolling plains stretching away to the
Tall green mountains and then lifted his eyes
To the blue skies and said
"Thank you God now I can take it from here"
"Thank you God now I can take it from here"
That spirit isn’t dead in our country
It’s dormant it’s been discredited in some
Circles, driven underground
But it isn’t dead
It’s just that a few seasons ago
Politicians baiting their hooks with free
Barbeque and trading a Ponzi promise
For votes began telling us
We don’t want opportunity anymore
We want security
We don’t want opportunity anymore
We want security
We don’t want opportunity anymore
We want security

And they said it so often
We came to believe them we wanted security
And they gave us chains and we were secure
Suddenly with our constitutional
Guarantees depleted, with
Our national character eroding away
With our tax laws penalizing those
Who would dare to prosper
With workers concentrating on how little
They can get by
With instead of how much they can produce
Suddenly we looked overhead one day
To discover that the first
To the moon in space
Was a Russian accomplishment
That free men dragging their feet had been
Outdistanced by slave workers
Dragging their chains
And we were sore afraid
Perhaps this was a disguised blessing, too
Maybe a dramatic accomplishment by this cold
War adversary was necessary to
Get us off our dead centres
And back to work again
If we can revive in ourselves
Then in our youth, something of that
Basic American’s Creed
The horizon has never ever been so limitless
For Man stands now on the
Threshold of his highest
Adventure of all his first
Faltering footsteps into space
Twenty years from today
Half of the products you will
Be using in your
Everyday living aren’t even in
The dictionary yet we’ve got it made If we
Just keep on keeping on
We’ve got it made – and if we don’t?
We will follow those other
Great nation-states of
History into the graveyard
Of ignominious oblivion
History promises only this for certain
We Will Get Exactly What We Deserve

Thank you God now I can take it from here
Thank you God now I can take it from here
Thank you God now I can take it from here
Thank you God now I can take it from here