Woody’s *original *version was. His second version, the one people know, is generic love of country.
For you francophones, there’s Joe Dassin’s “L’Amerique”.
Lyrics.
L’Amérique, l’Amérique, je veux l’avoir et je l’aurai
L’Amérique, l’Amérique, si c’est un rêve, je le saurai
Tous les sifflets des trains, toutes les sirènes des bateaux
M’ont chanté cent fois la chanson de l’Eldorado
De l’Amérique
America, America, I want to have it and I will
America, America, if it’s a dream I’ll know it
All the train’s whistles, all the boat’s sirens
Sang to me a hundred times the song of the Eldorado
Of America
There’s a retort about how Europe may not be America but it’s not bad: Jean-Claude Pascal’s “C’est peut-être pas l’Amérique”
Welcome Emigrante, Buffy Sainte Marie
Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads
Nelson: The City of New Orleans
Charles: A Rainy Night in Georgia
Elvis: Cold Kentucky Rain
Page: Old Cape Cod
Sinatra: New York, New York
Sinatra: Chicago (My Kind of Town)
Sinatra: Let’s Get Away from It All!
City of New Orleans and This Land is Your Land
But Paul Simons American Tune is my favorite.
Especially this lyric
"I don’t know a soul that’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend that feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it’s alright, it’s alright it’s alright
For we live so well so long
Still when I think about the road we’re traveling on
I can help but wonder what’s gone wrong."
This pretty much sums up the American Experience for me.
CCR: Proud Mary
Hank Williams III: Mississippi Mud
Highwaymen: Cotton Fields
Johnny Horton: North, to Alaska!
You want the “American Experience”? :dubious:
Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Comin’ Down
Johnny Cash: Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill
Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues
Roger Miller: King of the Road
Jimmy Dean: Big John
Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billy Joe
Jeannie C Riley: Harper Valley PTA
Merle Haggard: An Okie from Muskogee
Dueling Banjos
Theres probably at lest one song about every state:
Stars Fell on Alabama
North to Alaska
By the Time I get to Phoenix
Arkansas Traveler
California Dreamin’
Rocky Mountain High
Into the Mystic (Is that about Connecticut?)
and so on.
The Ballad of Daniel Boone
The Ballad of Davey Crockett The Ballad of Jed Clampett In Seattle (Here Come the Brides) The Yellow Rose of Texasnm, mixed up two songs.
Didn’t see Kansas’ Song For America posted yet.
All My Exes Live in Texas
Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman
Thanks, everybody, for these terrific recommendations. Should make for a fun mix. Some classics, some patriotic, some not quite as much, but all appreciated! 
Jan and Dean: Surf City 
Beach Boys: Surfin’ USA
Beach Boys: California Girl
California, Here I Come!
I can’t find a song that mentions Delaware, besides Josh Ritter’s “Hotel Song”, with a reference to seeing a Delaware license plate. Although Perry Como did a corny song with all the state puns in it, such as “What did Delaware” (Ans:. Her New Jersey"
Actuall, the fuller version of that was:
Q - “If Mississippi wore her New Jersey, what did Delaware”
A - “Idaho – Alaska”.
Monster by Steppenwolf
We’ve had Alaska; here’s Hawaii!
… And, in honor of the first Americans:
More Hawaii:
