Amazing America

by Wynn Heliczer

Amazing America
song from The Missing Beat Project, Wynn Heliczer ©
about Piero Heliczer in America, 1950s

Glorious! Glorious! America so glorious!
Work hard: be glorious! Smile wide: be glorious!

To grow up in Amazing America
Possibilities te over
Don’t matter where you com from
Here you can start all over

Education? Come and get it
Scholarship? Just rock it!
Harvard? Yale? Choose your match
Science award in the pocket

Glorious! Glorious! Piero you’ll be glorious!
Work hard: be glorious! Smile wide: be glorious!

To grow up in Amazing America
Doughnuts covered with sprinkles
Skyscrapers tickle the stars from the sky
Voor alles één winkel

French fries the American way
Catch up with ketchup galore
Forget about pasta with pesto
Mac & cheese is what we live for

Glorious! Glorious! Piero you’ll be glorious!
Work hard: be glorious! Smile wide: be glorious!
Glorious? Glorious? Things there were different
Glorious? Glorious? He’d heard that all before

He had to find his own gutter,
not one that’s created for him
He longed for the middle ages
And America bestond toen nog niet

To grow up in America, Drive in, drive thru Shoot with your gun
Plastic fantastic America, How are ya, how are you, Everything is FUN

To THROW UP in Amazing America
Gotta get out of here
Plastic AND SPASTIC America
Right now it’s just not for me . . .