Johnny Cash - Harley lyrics
[Johnny Cash - Harley lyrics]
Harley didn't have no education
He could hardly read and write
He was locked into a dead-end occupation
His future didn't look too bright
He worked eighteen years on the assembly line
Just getting by with a little bit of overtime
And that could be the end of this story
Of mine but it's just the beginning
Late one night when he was
Working on the graveyard
Harley got himself this big idea
All he'd have to do is
Change one little screw
Save millions of dollars a year
So he worked and he saved until
He could open his own shop
Money started rolling in like it
Wasn't going to stop
So Harley bought a mountain
Built a mansion on top
So the losers could see whom was winning
Only in America with nothing but a dream
Only in America where every man's king
First Harley's daughter, Janet
Found a guru she gave
Him everything she owned
Then Harley junior joined some
Kind of rock band
And walked around all day about half stoned
His wife watched TV all the
Time because she got bored
Then one day she found a
TV preacher she adored
And she gave all of Harley's hard
Earned money to the Lord
Harley started drinking
Wound up in Betty Ford to see if
He could buy a happy ending
Then some kid who worked
In Harley's factory
He got himself this big idea
Figured out how to do it with computers
Drove Harley out of business in a year
Now Harley's back working the assembly line
Just getting by with a little bit of overtime
But don't count Harley out because
He isn't the quitting kind
He stares at that computer with
One thing on his mind
How to make them more user-friendly
Only in America only in America
He could hardly read and write
He was locked into a dead-end occupation
His future didn't look too bright
He worked eighteen years on the assembly line
Just getting by with a little bit of overtime
And that could be the end of this story
Of mine but it's just the beginning
Late one night when he was
Working on the graveyard
Harley got himself this big idea
All he'd have to do is
Change one little screw
Save millions of dollars a year
So he worked and he saved until
He could open his own shop
Money started rolling in like it
Wasn't going to stop
So Harley bought a mountain
Built a mansion on top
So the losers could see whom was winning
Only in America with nothing but a dream
Only in America where every man's king
First Harley's daughter, Janet
Found a guru she gave
Him everything she owned
Then Harley junior joined some
Kind of rock band
And walked around all day about half stoned
His wife watched TV all the
Time because she got bored
Then one day she found a
TV preacher she adored
And she gave all of Harley's hard
Earned money to the Lord
Harley started drinking
Wound up in Betty Ford to see if
He could buy a happy ending
Then some kid who worked
In Harley's factory
He got himself this big idea
Figured out how to do it with computers
Drove Harley out of business in a year
Now Harley's back working the assembly line
Just getting by with a little bit of overtime
But don't count Harley out because
He isn't the quitting kind
He stares at that computer with
One thing on his mind
How to make them more user-friendly
Only in America only in America