Drive Thru America

My friend Katie’s got a white horse, and on it she will ride,
can’t find god in the city, so she’s going to the countryside,
what will she find?

I’ve got friends all over the place, think I’ll drive ’round to see them,
stop and play a few tunes, ’cause music is my freedom,
so I set out driving

Drive through in America, drive through in America,drive through in America,
Drive through America

I’ve got gasoline on the palms of my hands: the life blood of a nation
I stop every 300 hundred miles to pray at the holy gas station
I take communion

When I turn on the radio, it says “Do your duty!
we’re fighting for the American Dream, keep buying for the economy.
Your country needs you.”

god blesses America, god blesses America, god blesses America
god bless America

If god is on the bill boards, does that mean god’s really watching over us?
I’m writing while I’m driving which I think must be dangerous
so I hope someone’s watching

And god takes care of everyone here, bring your hungry to the window
at the Golden Arches, you can get your meal and then just drive on through
yeah just keep driving

Drive through in America, drive thru in america, drive thru in America
Drive through America

I watch the highways slip away across my windshield
I’m heading back for the border, hope this country’s customs will yield
and let me cross that line

The guard says “Business or pleasure, ma’am?” As he searches my belongings
and I say, “The pleasure’s all been mine, but now I am just longing
to go back home, where I belong”

Drive through in America, drive thru in america, drive thru in America
Drive through America

My friend Katie’s got a white horse, she rides it far and wide,
rides it to the frozen north, calls to tell me
that she’s found god, and she’s alive
yeah god is still alive

evalyn parry all rights reserved SOCAN 2002

This song appears on evalyn’s album Unreasonable, and on the DVD “Live at Lula”