Joe

                                  I go to church on Sunday morning

Come home and beat my wife

My name is Joe, and you know me

I've lived here all of my life

What a life



I've got this pain I cannot speak of

I'm not so bad as people say

Got two kids who look like angels

But sometimes, sometimes I wish they'd fly away



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Life is good, you know we're lucky

Living in the U.S.A.

We've got everything we ever dreamed of

Darlin' I don't know why

I don't know why I act this way



My next door neighbor's got a problem

He works hard, it don't seem fair

His wife's a teacher at the grade school

And we've been having this affair



I've been a son, I've been a soldier

I've thrown the football in the rain

The blood of murderers and millionaires is pounding

Pounding through my veins



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But life is good, you know we're lucky

Living in the U.S. of A.

And we got everything we ever dreamed of

Baby I don't know why

I don't know why I act this way



When Kennedy was in the white house

We were children in the sun

Smokin' candy cigarettes

Cowboys and Indians with wooden guns



Some nights I go down to the basement

With thoughts I do not understand

A purple heart and a loaded pistol

And I just hold 'em

Hold 'em in my hands



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Life is good, you know we're lucky

Cause baby this is the U.S.A.

And we got everything we ever dreamed of

Darlin' I don't know why

No, I don't know why I act this way

I don't know why I act this way