I Miss America-Harry Chapin

[ti:I Miss America] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Sequel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Miss America - Harry Chapin [00:07.67]By the time I was thirteen [00:10.16] [00:12.03]I started taking shape [00:14.28] [00:15.66]At eighteen I was so beautiful [00:17.90] [00:18.65]That the strangers started to gape [00:21.33] [00:22.09]They said "Enter the ultimate contest [00:25.70]If you're as gorgeous as you seem " [00:28.15] [00:29.45]They said "Please please please please [00:33.35] [00:34.09]Be our American dream " [00:35.91] [00:36.90]But late that night beneath the grieving moon [00:40.35]There's a dazzling sight in my motel room [00:44.35]For a grunting judge with his bulging eyes [00:47.97]I give my all for his cherished prize [00:51.47]Oh why oh why [00:58.14]I'm Miss America [01:01.57] [01:04.00]Crying on TV [01:06.12] [01:07.31]Silver clad in satin rags [01:10.50]But everything's where it should be [01:13.31] [01:14.00]Oh say can you see ah say can you see [01:21.92] [01:27.35]After they showed me the game ball [01:30.10] [01:31.59]They told me put on weight [01:34.21] [01:35.22]They told me I'd be powerful [01:37.52] [01:38.83]They told me I'd be great [01:40.87] [01:41.69]And my Uncle Sam he would coach me [01:44.87] [01:45.49]His helmet on my head [01:48.03] [01:49.03]And they said "Please please please please [01:53.16] [01:53.86]Please win and beat the spread " [01:56.16] [01:56.78]But the new game plan that the owners had made [02:00.23]Meant that win or lose there would be a trade [02:03.97]For the team's become a real gold mine [02:07.57]And the kid's sold off for the bottom line [02:10.90] [02:11.46]Oh why oh why [02:18.00] [02:18.55]Mr America [02:21.49] [02:23.54]Sweating on TV [02:25.73] [02:26.42]The winner's joy from the battered boy [02:30.22]For everything's where it should be [02:33.22] [02:34.03]Oh say can you see ah say can you see [02:41.09] [02:47.27]At last we've come together [02:50.92]Call it marriage or civil war [02:53.98] [02:54.54]If it brings us to battle babe [02:58.72]It must be worth our fighting for [03:02.03]Though today came up cloudy [03:05.90]There will be other days [03:08.71] [03:09.46]"Ah please please please please [03:13.58] [03:14.38]What else is there to say " [03:17.07] [03:19.06]But in plywood spread [03:20.62]By a plastic stream [03:22.68]And in separate beds with a borrowed dream [03:26.35]And with questions wide and the silence deep [03:30.00]We take two pills so at last we'll sleep [03:33.43]Oh why oh why [03:39.86]Mr and Mrs America [03:43.35] [03:45.78]Our story's on TV [03:48.53] [03:49.59]Can you hear canned laughter [03:52.52]For everything's where it should be [03:55.64] [03:56.21]Oh say can you see ah say can you see [04:06.23] [04:09.73]Well my little boy he told me something [04:13.32] [04:14.19]Just the other night [04:16.68] [04:17.87]He whispered it as I kissed him [04:20.62]Before I turned out the light [04:22.86] [04:24.48]And of course he said it simple [04:27.41] [04:28.16]As only children can [04:30.71] [04:31.72]He said "Daddy daddy daddy please [04:36.33] [04:37.52]I'm ready to dream again "