Song Description

As told by a blue-collar small town American family man (truck driver) from the Midwest. Describes the simple joys of everyday life in middle america. The bridge introduces a war time theme of a soldier coming home safe after being captured in Iraq (based on real events)

Lyrics

wheatfields dance to the prairie wind
sky turns dark as the rain rolls in it?s a hundred and one degrees in the shade
eighteen wheels on a twelve-hour ride
makin? my livin? in between the white lines call the wife and kids daddy?s comin? home
family friends and values that?s the life that we sought out
that?s our american dream and here?s what it?s all about

CHORUS
it?s about a small town set against a wide open sky
it?s about puttin? my son on my shoulders to watch a parade pass by
it?s about wind chimes singin? in a summer breeze
folks wave flags ?cause they?re proud to be free
that?s country my way

times got tough back in eighty nine
the rain didn?t stop ?till it came waist high memories floated away down river road
the ones who were spared came to lend a hand
with their hammers and their nails and their bags of sand
saving what they could from the rising tide
well we?ve made it through the hard times through the twisters floods and droughts
preserving our way of life and here?s what it?s all about

CHORUS

BRIDGE
then one of our local boys got called to serve his land
his face was on the evening news caught in the enemy?s hands
yellow ribbons of faith and hope tied ?round every tree
a nation came together we became one family
and then when he stepped off that plane he was back where he belonged
a nations prayers were answered a hero had come home

to a small town set against a wide open sky
my youngest on my shoulders to see a hero in real life
with the wind chimes singin? in the summer breeze
folks wavin' flags ?cause they?re proud to be free
that?s country, my way

yea that?s country
the american way my way