The States
We woke up in Nevada, the sun came in the room
On its way to California and Hawaiian honeymoon
It started out quite early with "How'd you wake up so soon?"
From a fine Missouri sunset to a Kansas afternoon

Oh winter's great in Vermont when it's maple syrup time
When it's corn in Minnesota, sweet Georgia's on my mind
Have you seen the Mississippi roll into New Orleans?
And the great Dakota wheat fields and a Texas girl in jeans?

Have you been to the Carolinas when the honeysuckle blooms?
And walked in Alabama to Old Susanah's Tune?
There's waterfalls in Oregon that set the heart to swoon
Like a Pennsylvania morning and Indiana harvest moon

There's tourist down in Florida and fun in Ohio
North right to Alaska where the giant grizzly roams
There's New York state, the Great Lakes, Maine and Michigan
Southern cooking, baseball and Kentucky gentleman

I think of Colorado, Rocky Mountain's columbine
I think of Wildwood Flower and how the Nashville music rhyme
To the Grand Canyon rims with Apache friends, but I love a girl in France
Where the river runs with the Bordeaux wine, but that's another song and dance
Yes it is
Oh Washington great apples, Virginia's hard to beat
Idaho is beautiful, Rhode Island is so neat
I'm American, red, white and blue, and I love the USA
But my heart is with a French girl five thousand miles away
Yeah

I'm American, red, white and blue, how I miss my USA
For I can't stand for her to be five thousand miles away
Yeah