When you listen to this song, if you do not feel a tug at your heart and tears forming in your eyes, there is no hope for you. I am almost 73 years old. I have seen the best of times and the worst of times. God, bring back all those good times to all of your people.
hey Ronnie, all my uncles and my son too are truck drivers, I actually wrote it as , a truck driver , it said, I drive an old eighteen wheeler , and in my time I thought I"d seen it all.....but the record label wanted it to be anyone and not a truck driver, well, as our song went up the charts , Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses , went with it, I was right!! it was time for a a truck driving song..
@@larryalderman8919 I hope you are still writing songs, this is a great one and I still love it as much as when it first came out. Write some more like this Larry, America needs them now more than ever!
@@k1j2f30 Hey, Great to hear from you, I just recorded an album as a Artist-Writer, I recorded a new version of Americana, and other new songs, you can subscribe to my youtube channel , Larry Alderman, and I am on Facebook , I do a live show , facebook live, called Cowboy Coffee Time every Thursday morn. at 9am Central time USA..I have an international audience, and we have fun..I have some new single out the last 6 months , just search my name on iTunes..I love my country!! USA!!
@@bradleyearl8558 I'm thankful, thanks, if you are on facebook, friend me, i do a live show on facebook called Cowboy Coffee Time each thursday morning at 9am central..
Thank God that I lived in the USA when kids stll respected their elders and the flag! I feel bad for those who have no prospects for normal life as I did. VietNam taught me how much I love this life and this country even with all her troubles and problems America is still the best land on planet earth.
Semper Fi gene I was over there myself did six tours in country Vietnam people's republic of we probably ate the same dirt for sure did you ever spend anytime in the firebase during the mid to late sixties?
This past summer, I was driving a semi truck back east through New York state. And I went through a small town on the forth of July, As I breached a small hill I could see some of a community, A modern school off to the left, a ball field where people were playing ball, of several different games. Next near the road was a large community pick nick, Bar B que , lots people socializing. And across the street was a cemetery with some very old stones , very old, And that cemetery was not lacking for visitors that day. Flags flew every where. Family not forgetting family and friends. Going further into town ,I went down a truck route.Lined with Norman Rockwell style homes, trees, You could feel the homey community there, Picturesque as it could be. an older gentleman sprang from his lawn chair, An older man, tall, with a big broad smile waving at me like he'd seen an old friend. , A grin a mile wide on his face, He was wearing cap with a truck logo on it. I waved back, And his smile got even wider, if that was even possible. Then he waved with both arms high above his head., I guess I made his day, I could only surmise he was a retired trucker. Boy when I hear this song , Goose bumps jump up and I cry a river, Having grown up in a small town my self. This song really hit a cord. Knowing that the American spirit is like this nearly every where across this wonderful land we call America, Our Home of freedom. From what the news media beams at us every day, they paint a much different image of us. But that day I'll remember forever, Much thanks to that small town in New York. I love cross country driving. Unfortunately that was my last run. And I am really happy to have seen this beautiful GOD blessed country. It is what we make it.
I love the story, sad they will vote to change all.that in 2020. The Democratic party is gone all that is left is the dust covered memories. Now it's the liberal socialist party of America. Vote Republican in 2020
I much prefer the country music of the 80's and 90's to the so-called "country music" of today. Back then, country music had heart. Today's country music doesn't even come close! This beautiful song by Moe Bandy just speaks to my heart. I grew up in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley in California. This part of California (the San Joaquin Valley) is very conservative, patriotic, and Christian, and we are proud of that. I have loved ones who served in the military, including my Dad, who passed away two years ago after a long battle with cancer, and is terribly missed. He was in the Navy during the Korean War. I can't understand for the life of me, how anybody can hate America. Like that line from the classic Merle Haggard song, "Fightin' Side Of Me" says, "If you don't love it, leave it!" Makes sense to me! Many of us do love this country, and we are not ashamed of that.
Same I am still young but I listen too the music my parents and grandparents listened too the new music just does not hold up to the old unfortunately.
Is it? Are we supposed to settle for anything? Will people still say that when our freedoms are gone and we’re a socialist country? I guess as long as we’re one step above a banana republic it’s all good, right?
@@fingershardcore lie. Prove your slander. Trump wants our border secure like dam democrates did before he was elected. Its simple no border no country. All we need is another million welfare leaches. That will grow to many generations of welfare leaches. The ones the demorats want to bring in will be put on the democrat plantation just like the blacks have been kept down since Johnson was PRESIDENT. His on words, If we gonna let them vote, I'll keep them voting democrat for the next 200 years. HIS EXACT WORDS. KEEPING THEM ON THE PLANTATION (WELFARE) TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN WE'VE HAD IN MANY GENERATIONS. SO BOFORE YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU HEAR. PLEASE HAS SOME FACTS. RUSSIA IS NOT ONE. SO NOW YOU CAN PLAY THE RACE CARD. THAT ONE IS A LIE TO.
Donald J Trump wouldn't know what Patriotism was & he surely doesn't love the United States of America. Donald J Trump has a yellow streak down his back as wide as the pacific ocean
We need this song to be blasted all over every radio today in 2023 more than ever. America is on her knees but she is not dead and she is still proud and with the help of God and all her patriots she will stand again stronger than ever. God please bless our beloved America again.
I drive a truck for a living, so I see the parts of this country that still live this way. Its not to late, we just have to be willing to live within our means, and work for the things we want.
Thank you from that 13 yr old now 65 that you once called up on stage to play with you in that union hall. You taught me much and music makes the world go round.
Great song! Not sure why so many thumbs down though....maybe those are the ppl hating on America currently. Makes me love this country even more! ❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love to all the good old days , there are still places in our U.S.A .🇺🇸🇺🇸 BUT MOST HAVE faded away , Let Us All Pray for these day to come back And Soon . God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 And Our Families As Weil ❤️🥰😇🙏🙏🙏
As the song says, "there is something about a small town in the summer" How true that is. You don't get that feeling when your in Chicago or Denver or New York City. It is a somewhat "magical" feeling that surrounds you. Love small town America. And Love this country.
I live in a small town and upstate New York 300 miles from New York City I never seen New York City or want to I live in East Freetown New York where about 8 miles away from Cincinnatus NY 8 miles away from Marathon New York and 8 mi away from the McGraw NY which are all small old farming communities much like the one shown in the video please don't compare us to New York City
I loved this song and I am a 2 tour Viet Nam,my youngest son of Iraqi Freedom, Father was Korea,my adapted Dad Corps of Engineers, Grand Father excaped the Bolshivecs and came to this great Republic.Many thanks for this post.
No matter what happens or what we will face. There will always be millions with the same spirit n love for the USA, just like what Moe Bandy says in this song. God Bless America
"There were old men on benches playing checkers, Children playing hopscotch on the square, And high above a statue, of an Unknown Soldier, Old Glory was waving in the air. Suddenly I realized what I'd too long forgotten, A chill rose up like mountains on my skin, Overcome with a feelin', I knew I was seein', America all over again." -Larry Alderman & Richard Fagan wrote it best and Moe sings it best. God bless all our troops, veterans and those who gave their lives for our country.
I just watched an interview with Moe Bandy that aired many years ago on Ralph Emery Live; saw it on RFDTV. I never knew, but Moe Bandy said that the song, (he didn't write it), was originally written from the perspective of a trucker who got off the road and made a detour through a small town. I've loved this song for many years, but only today learned that little tidbit about the song. God bless the USA, and God bless Trump. We need them BOTH back!
Yes, as one of the writers, my family were truck drivers, so honored that Moe loved and recorded our song.. the first line originally said, "I drive an old eighteen wheeler, in my time I thought Id seen it all..."
I heard this song for the first time around 2012 and i love It. It brought back memories when i worked un a farm un east Texas back un 1983. I really miss that Mill Creek Farm! Those small towns near that place, Quitman, Mineola, Lindale, Big Sandy and others its names y cant recall. When i heard this song i remembered those days and i miss them so much. I am Mexican, and i worked there as an iligall alien But i love the United States because i know It Is a God chosen land and it breaks muy heart what It has became. All that hate and dividesefness( or however It Is spelled) I just hope someday América turns the way It uses to be.
k1j2f30 Every town I've tried to set up a life in, that resembles what was in this video, is filled with either Meth heads, or witch hanging Satanic cults behind the front of Christianity.
Thanks for such a touching comment, we were so proud to write this, as a veteran myself Nam era... we wrote how I feel about my country. God bless you.
"There were old men on benches playing checkers, children playing hopscotch on the square, and high above a statue, of an Unknown Soldier, Old Glory was waving in the air." I lived in Lexington, North Carolina for three years; it is a great little town. Anyway, those lyrics always remind me of Lexington because in the square they had a statue of an Unknown Civil War Soldier and if I remember rightly on his buckle were the initials "CSA" not "USA". You gotta love this great country.
I was proud to write this and I based it on Mt. Airy NC where I grew up. I played my guitar outside Floyds Barbershop as a kid and old men played checkers on a bench, and sold newspapers on a stand...Andy's hometown , was just home at Easter..thanks!
Driving across rural Minnesota, farmhouses with silos and cornfields, hay bales and golden wheat. God I love this country! Two days from now will be 23 years since I immigrated to this land of opportunity (July 18, 1996)
GREETINGS FROM THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY CALLED THE USA!! It is time for Republicans, Democrats and Independents to get together and to WORK TOGETHER towards a brighter future!! We are ALL ONE NATION UNDER GOD!! We ALL love this country. We just have different ideas of how to fix it and, being allowed to have these ideas (unlike countries like North Korea, etc) is what makes THIS country GREAT!! Let's put hatred behind us, PLEASE!!!!!! The American people are wonderful people!!
Of all the songs that pertain to the good ole USA, this one is tops. This boy sings it with feeling. I know where he is coming from and know he has the same feelings as millions of us. God Bless the USA. Thanks MOE.
Yes sir!! I settled my family down in a small farmer town in south eastern Wisconsin, and we are happy! No pronouns, no purple hair, no damn riots here. We get up with the sun and go down with it as well. We worship God, and try to do his will every day. We raise our kids with the best morals, and love our neighbors as we do our brothers. If you don't like it, then you should scroll on. Thanks!
@@larryalderman8919 I am honored to have a writer of this classic American song write me. I always loved it. Thank you for writing such a beautiful tune.
@@ClassicTrucker great to know ya.. thanks. My son is a truck driver. My uncles all were, I drove a Oil tanker, supply Army.. We first had the song as a trucker, (I drive an old eighteen wheeler) was first line...
I do need to say one more thing. I live in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania called Emmaus. This town is just like the one in this video. Pennsylvania Dutch, people walking down the street hand-in-hand. Ol Glory wavin' in the air all over (especially on the Fourth of July!) It is located about 45 minutes north of Philadelphia. Very very nice!!
that's so cool, as one of the writers of this song, I can tell you, we based it on my Appalachian hometown of Mt. Airy NC.. Mayberry, when i was a kid, old men sat on benches and played checkers on main street ...
Great video, so glad you shared. God Bless America. America, let's not loose her! Moe Bandy did a super job here. When I was growing up we played softball almost every Sunday in the summers. I sure have some great memories of those early years.
Clear back in the 1980s - the exact year I can't remember for certain - my wife and I had just moved to a small country town Snyder County in Pennsylvania. In the fall of that year we went for the first time to the annual Bean Soup Festival. It was that night we saw and heard for the first time Moe Bandy who sang a number of his hit songs. But when he sang "Americanna," I immediately fell in love, not only the song, but even more so with the lyrics which so eloquently expressed, and still do, of those small but common elements over time that have helped make, shape, and preserve all that is great about America. As Moe sang it, I can recall tears beginning to well up with the message it conveyed. Here it is 2018 - almost 30 years later - I am sitting here watching Moe's video, and my eyes once again well up with tears long after that night at the Bean Soup Festival and the countless times I have heard it since. Though my wife who has since passed away, she was and still would be moved by the true feelings expressed in these lyrics. I would hope that during these turbulent times that we may all stop and reflect upon all that is beautiful and great and what makes each of us "---people proud and free." Thanks so much for sharing this memorable Moe Bandy classic.
I live in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania called Emmaus. Emmaus is exactly like the town depicted in this video! American flags are everywhere! Very friendly people and a beautiful town square (actually, it's a triangle!) I love this town and I love this country!!
glad you like the song, we loved writing it, I am from Mt Airy NC originally , been in Nashville for 40 years as a songwriter guitarist, the song is based on my hometown which is the real Mayberry, Andy Griffiths hometown. glad it is like your town! I grew up playing guitar outside Floyds Barbershop, and these old men played checkers on a bench and sold newspapers on a stand, so I put it in the song...
I used to listen to this song all the time on the tv... True country music i think the channel was called... after we moved, and my brother left the house, taking the tv, i stopped listening to this song for years... not by choice. I didn't know the name of the song, or the singer... one part, the chorus, was stuck in my head that whole time, and not even the whole chorus... americana... thats all i could remember. but when i looked it up, all I got was halsey.... then I heard the song on Iheart radio... it was damn good luck. i was so happy to hear it again. and now i know the name, and whos it by... i love that... so thank you iheart radio!!!!!
Oh for the Norman Rockwell days again.I'm English but first went to New York City back in te early 50's when in the Merchant Marine a great song for your great nation. God Bless You All.
I love this song. Live in Canada. Been truckin through the good old usa since seventies. Great people. Met a lot of great friends. A lot of lifetime friends. Some are gone now. Take care America.
HAPPY 4th To Our Americana And The Great Love We Shared Over The Loving Years With Each Other , Say A Prayer For A Blessed God Loving America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 THE U.S.A. ❤️😇🙏🙏🙏 Love To All Theresa &. Ronnie ,share some Love ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Great song! Great land! I live in the small city of Easton, PA and, in the center square, they always have a beautiful American flag flying. I love it!!
"Americana" is a masterful song of reassurance that our country is indeed still intact, at least at the grassroots where it matters. Great song, Moe, keep it up...we sure need guys like you, and of course, we need our God!
thanks so much for a nice comment. Moe is a great guy, I was honored that he recorded and loved our song, as veteran myself, we wrote about our love for our country.
It is my Sincere belief that Moe Bandy wrote his music with ladies in mind why you might ask? because he thinks women's lives are in the balance he is not the only one. he wants you to do what he did become singer/songwriter's! Tommy West
i saw this music video on american soldier channel here in korea in early 90's . a sea of US soldiers have stationed on the korean peninsular since korean war 1950. i know that a lot of US young men died for the peace for the not well known country. god speed your love to america cheers from korea
This song reminds me of the America that I grew up in . I worry about my children and grandchildren on what America has become . Thank God they live in a little small town on The Suwannee river in North Florida where those values still exist. I know there's a lot of Good people in this country that feel the same as I do. We have to get our America back we are losing it fast . God-bless America
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Who is listening in 2024. Where did OUR COUNTRY GO. GOD PLEASE HELP MY COUNTRY
"our country"? who is we? is the answer some load of horsecrap like "true americans"?
😂 just vote for Kamala she will finish what joe started
@@zoastymusicAnother stupid leftist from a stupid country in this planet.
When you listen to this song, if you do not feel a tug at your heart and tears forming in your eyes, there is no hope for you. I am almost 73 years old. I have seen the best of times and the worst of times. God, bring back all those good times to all of your people.
hey Ronnie, all my uncles and my son too are truck drivers, I actually wrote it as , a truck driver , it said, I drive an old eighteen wheeler , and in my time I thought I"d seen it all.....but the record label wanted it to be anyone and not a truck driver, well, as our song went up the charts , Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses , went with it, I was right!! it was time for a a truck driving song..
@@larryalderman8919 I hope you are still writing songs, this is a great one and I still love it as much as when it first came out. Write some more like this Larry, America needs them now more than ever!
@@k1j2f30 Hey, Great to hear from you, I just recorded an album as a Artist-Writer, I recorded a new version of Americana, and other new songs, you can subscribe to my youtube channel , Larry Alderman, and I am on Facebook , I do a live show , facebook live, called Cowboy Coffee Time every Thursday morn. at 9am Central time USA..I have an international audience, and we have fun..I have some new single out the last 6 months , just search my name on iTunes..I love my country!! USA!!
@@larryalderman8919 God bless your soul Larry. You have written some epic songs with some epic artists
@@bradleyearl8558 I'm thankful, thanks, if you are on facebook, friend me, i do a live show on facebook called Cowboy Coffee Time each thursday morning at 9am central..
In rural America we still embrace our heritage with pride!!
*MEN to TH*T, brothers *ND sisters!
Amen brother
Not in 2020. To many stupid masks in the way.
Moe paints a picture with this song. Kids today will never understand what it's about. You just had to be there.
We must use great patience and teach them. I definitely do my kids and grandkids. Great comment.
AMEN!😊
Sad but true
We sure need this today. God bless America 🇺🇸
Thank God that I lived in the USA when kids stll respected their elders and the flag! I feel bad for those who have no prospects for normal life as I did. VietNam taught me how much I love this life and this country even with all her troubles and problems America is still the best land on planet earth.
Yes, she is!! Long may she live!!
Semper Fi gene I was over there myself did six tours in country Vietnam people's republic of we probably ate the same dirt for sure did you ever spend anytime in the firebase during the mid to late sixties?
My dad passed away in 2021. He never talked about Vietnam except when he was at the VFW. COVID sucks!
Amen brother.
I love this song, every time I listen to it I can't help but remember how much simpler and less hectic things were back when. This is America.
thanks, glad you love our song... I believe we can bring our country back from the grass roots !
This is one of the best country singers there has ever been.
Amen!!
@@67polara Moe is a great guy personally, glad you love the song, we loved writing it!
Glad I am old enough to remember when America was truly a great place. Just memories now and fading fast.
SI !! SENIOR >
George Baumann We forgot how to build the Pyramids.
@@AngelCintiaRockgirl Shit, we forgot how to build the Saturn 5 rocket.
THIS is true!
Now it’s civil war...
This past summer, I was driving a semi truck back east through New York state. And I went through a small town on the forth of July, As I breached a small hill I could see some of a community, A modern school off to the left, a ball field where people were playing ball, of several different games. Next near the road was a large community pick nick, Bar B que , lots people socializing. And across the street was a cemetery with some very old stones , very old, And that cemetery was not lacking for visitors that day. Flags flew every where. Family not forgetting family and friends.
Going further into town ,I went down a truck route.Lined with Norman Rockwell style homes, trees, You could feel the homey community there, Picturesque as it could be. an older gentleman sprang from his lawn chair, An older man, tall, with a big broad smile waving at me like he'd seen an old friend. , A grin a mile wide on his face, He was wearing cap with a truck logo on it. I waved back, And his smile got even wider, if that was even possible. Then he waved with both arms high above his head., I guess I made his day, I could only surmise he was a retired trucker. Boy when I hear this song , Goose bumps jump up and I cry a river, Having grown up in a small town my self. This song really hit a cord.
Knowing that the American spirit is like this nearly every where across this wonderful land we call America, Our Home of freedom. From what the news media beams at us every day, they paint a much different image of us.
But that day I'll remember forever, Much thanks to that small town in New York. I love cross country driving. Unfortunately that was my last run. And I am really happy to have seen this beautiful GOD blessed country. It is what we make it.
Love your story ! ♡♡
I love the story, sad they will vote to change all.that in 2020. The Democratic party is gone all that is left is the dust covered memories. Now it's the liberal socialist party of America. Vote Republican in 2020
I drive too
This song gets me choked up too.
One of the greatest songs about the America I grew in.
A great song that should be sung every national holiday.
(ROFL) I (SOMEWH*T) *gree!
Ragged old by Johnny Cash is another one that touches the heart
Right up there with "God Bless The USA," by Lee Greenwood
I much prefer the country music of the 80's and 90's to the so-called "country music" of today. Back then, country music had heart. Today's country music doesn't even come close!
This beautiful song by Moe Bandy just speaks to my heart. I grew up in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley in California. This part of California (the San Joaquin Valley) is very conservative, patriotic, and Christian, and we are proud of that. I have loved ones who served in the military, including my Dad, who passed away two years ago after a long battle with cancer, and is terribly missed. He was in the Navy during the Korean War.
I can't understand for the life of me, how anybody can hate America. Like that line from the classic Merle Haggard song, "Fightin' Side Of Me" says, "If you don't love it, leave it!" Makes sense to me! Many of us do love this country, and we are not ashamed of that.
Wish county music still sounded this good!
Spot ON!
Me, too.
Same I am still young but I listen too the music my parents and grandparents listened too the new music just does not hold up to the old unfortunately.
Me too
God Bless the US of A. This is america at its best for sure.
Is it? Are we supposed to settle for anything? Will people still say that when our freedoms are gone and we’re a socialist country? I guess as long as we’re one step above a banana republic it’s all good, right?
@@100texan2 I’m 100% Texan too man, Texan then American. But what you’re saying has no context or goes with what the other guy said. Enjoy a song.
@@chaser8811 I guess you’re the UA-cam message police? I’ll get your permission before I post a message from now on. Okay boss? Let me know.
America even with all our problems, Still the best Country to live in.
In 1988 when this song came out things were much different. GOD BLESS the Republic.
Thank you Moe Bandy 👍 🇺🇸 And President Trump For Loving Us & America THE U.S.A. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 It’s All Bout Love 😘❤️👍 🇺🇸 Share The Love ❤️🇺🇸
Trump loves Russia not America!
@@fingershardcore lie. Prove your slander. Trump wants our border secure like dam democrates did before he was elected. Its simple no border no country. All we need is another million welfare leaches. That will grow to many generations of welfare leaches. The ones the demorats want to bring in will be put on the democrat plantation just like the blacks have been kept down since Johnson was PRESIDENT. His on words, If we gonna let them vote, I'll keep them voting democrat for the next 200 years. HIS EXACT WORDS. KEEPING THEM ON THE PLANTATION (WELFARE) TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN WE'VE HAD IN MANY GENERATIONS. SO BOFORE YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU HEAR. PLEASE HAS SOME FACTS. RUSSIA IS NOT ONE. SO NOW YOU CAN PLAY THE RACE CARD. THAT ONE IS A LIE TO.
The Russia narrative is propaganda from the Ill leftists. They tried and failed miserably.
Donald J Trump wouldn't know what Patriotism was & he surely doesn't love the United States of America. Donald J Trump has a yellow streak down his back as wide as the pacific ocean
@@lonniestevens7963 Do you have a clue to which U S Border is the least secured & I bet you don't
We need this song to be blasted all over every radio today in 2023 more than ever. America is on her knees but she is not dead and she is still proud and with the help of God and all her patriots she will stand again stronger than ever. God please bless our beloved America again.
Consider this the 17th up vote. I clicked on the thumb but nothing happened. GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS ALL AND GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY!!
I drive a truck for a living, so I see the parts of this country that still live this way. Its not to late, we just have to be willing to live within our means, and work for the things we want.
*MEN to TH*T, brother!
❤
Regardless of our problems, this song makes me proud to be an American!
I've loved this song as a teen growing up on a farm
@@Strangleholdintn what a great comment, we loved writing it, I enlisted ,not drafted in 71 during Nam. I love my country still.
I *GREE with you HERE, Kelly!
I miss our country music. 😢
yes. I am honored to be a writer on this song, as a veteran we said what I feel about my country.
Thank you from that 13 yr old now 65 that you once called up on stage to play with you in that union hall. You taught me much and music makes the world go round.
This song hits me harder than Lee Greenwood's song. As a veteran, this is how I picture America, and how I want to see it out.
thanks, as a writer of the song, I am honored you think this way.
Great song! Not sure why so many thumbs down though....maybe those are the ppl hating on America currently. Makes me love this country even more! ❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
These people should go back to where they came from instead of just hanging here for welfare and everything free just leaches
Great song. I think of better times and more pride in our country.
we were proud to write this, I am so humbled that 34 years later it still touches people's hearts.
Love to all the good old days , there are still places in our U.S.A .🇺🇸🇺🇸 BUT MOST HAVE faded away , Let Us All Pray for these day to come back And Soon . God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 And Our Families As Weil ❤️🥰😇🙏🙏🙏
As the song says, "there is something about a small town in the summer" How true that is. You don't get that feeling when your in Chicago or Denver or New York City. It is a somewhat "magical" feeling that surrounds you. Love small town America. And Love this country.
I live in a small town and upstate New York 300 miles from New York City I never seen New York City or want to I live in East Freetown New York where about 8 miles away from Cincinnatus NY 8 miles away from Marathon New York and 8 mi away from the McGraw NY which are all small old farming communities much like the one shown in the video please don't compare us to New York City
Chugwater, Wyoming.
I loved this song and I am a 2 tour Viet Nam,my youngest son of Iraqi Freedom, Father was Korea,my adapted
Dad Corps of Engineers, Grand Father excaped the Bolshivecs and came to this great Republic.Many thanks for this post.
thanks for your service , we were proud to write this!
I always think of my Dad RIP 🙏 he really believed in our Great Country and believed in the goodness of all people and loved America 🇺🇸😢
God bless your dad, RIP, I love this post, I was honored, as a vet myself, to be a writer on this song. God bless America!!
No matter what happens or what we will face. There will always be millions with the same spirit n love for the USA, just like what Moe Bandy says in this song. God Bless America
You appreciate this song after you have traveled all 48 states. Great song, thanks
We are still the best Damn country on Earth....Ooh rah!
This will be OUR national anthem. I will have long passed. But i wish you'uns luck
as one of the writers of the song, I am honored you feel that way, God bless.
Americana. Gone but not forgotten 😢
thanks, so glad you love our song.
Man I miss songs and life as it was when this song was released.
I second that, my friend! A much more innocent and friendly time.
Some men could borrow at the bank simply on their word,
Moe's one of them.
+Bill Bright my grandfather use to borrow money just on his word !
+Lloyd Dailey Won't happen now :(
My dad used to sign the book at the grocery store till pay day.
"There were old men on benches playing checkers, Children playing hopscotch on the square, And high above a statue, of an Unknown Soldier, Old Glory was waving in the air. Suddenly I realized what I'd too long forgotten, A chill rose up like mountains on my skin, Overcome with a feelin', I knew I was seein', America all over again." -Larry Alderman & Richard Fagan wrote it best and Moe sings it best. God bless all our troops, veterans and those who gave their lives for our country.
I just watched an interview with Moe Bandy that aired many years ago on Ralph Emery Live; saw it on RFDTV. I never knew, but Moe Bandy said that the song, (he didn't write it), was originally written from the perspective of a trucker who got off the road and made a detour through a small town. I've loved this song for many years, but only today learned that little tidbit about the song. God bless the USA, and God bless Trump. We need them BOTH back!
Yes, as one of the writers, my family were truck drivers, so honored that Moe loved and recorded our song.. the first line originally said, "I drive an old eighteen wheeler, in my time I thought Id seen it all..."
I heard this song for the first time around 2012 and i love It. It brought back memories when i worked un a farm un east Texas back un 1983. I really miss that Mill Creek Farm! Those small towns near that place, Quitman, Mineola, Lindale, Big Sandy and others its names y cant recall. When i heard this song i remembered those days and i miss them so much. I am Mexican, and i worked there as an iligall alien
But i love the United States because i know It Is a God chosen land and it breaks muy heart what It has became. All that hate and dividesefness( or however It Is spelled)
I just hope someday América turns the way It uses to be.
as one of the writers, I love this comment, that now in 2024 also, it still touches people. humbled.
Great song! Sad but not much Americana left anymore.....damn, I really miss it.
k1j2f30 Every town I've tried to set up a life in, that resembles what was in this video, is filled with either Meth heads, or witch hanging Satanic cults behind the front of Christianity.
let's GO for (uh) RIDE *LL over this country!
It's still there, sometimes you have to look to find it.
Mr. Bandy, I'm so glad you did keep "holding to the dream". I remember your Americana Theater and all your beautiful music.
we were so proud to write this, and thanks for loving our country!!
Just a great ol' patriotic country song about a great country!! I grew up listening to this music.
glad you like it, we were so proud to write it, still feel this way !!
High above the statue of an unknown soldier...
Beautiful lyric.
Always makes me tear up.
Thanks for such a touching comment, we were so proud to write this, as a veteran myself Nam era... we wrote how I feel about my country. God bless you.
"There were old men on benches playing checkers, children playing hopscotch on the square, and high above a statue, of an Unknown Soldier, Old Glory was waving in the air." I lived in Lexington, North Carolina for three years; it is a great little town. Anyway, those lyrics always remind me of Lexington because in the square they had a statue of an Unknown Civil War Soldier and if I remember rightly on his buckle were the initials "CSA" not "USA". You gotta love this great country.
I was proud to write this and I based it on Mt. Airy NC where I grew up. I played my guitar outside Floyds Barbershop as a kid and old men played checkers on a bench, and sold newspapers on a stand...Andy's hometown , was just home at Easter..thanks!
This is one HELL of A country singer. I put him next to George Jones who was the best.
Patty has the lungs for it..
A fabulous song -- a great anthem to the greatest country in the history of the world!
Before Trump!
we were proud to write it, so great that you feel this way , thanks.
It breaks my heart to see what America has become.
Americana.. you're still what livin means to me. America is still safe n sound. Amen
Yeah your right on !
Driving across rural Minnesota, farmhouses with silos and cornfields, hay bales and golden wheat. God I love this country! Two days from now will be 23 years since I immigrated to this land of opportunity (July 18, 1996)
GREETINGS FROM THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY CALLED THE USA!! It is time for Republicans, Democrats and Independents to get together and to WORK TOGETHER towards a brighter future!! We are ALL ONE NATION UNDER GOD!! We ALL love this country. We just have different ideas of how to fix it and, being allowed to have these ideas (unlike countries like North Korea, etc) is what makes THIS country GREAT!! Let's put hatred behind us, PLEASE!!!!!! The American people are wonderful people!!
Of all the songs that pertain to the good ole USA, this one is tops. This boy sings it with feeling. I know where he is coming from and know he has the same feelings as millions of us. God Bless the USA. Thanks MOE.
so glad you love it, we loved writing it, still feel this way today!!
Yes sir!! I settled my family down in a small farmer town in south eastern Wisconsin, and we are happy! No pronouns, no purple hair, no damn riots here. We get up with the sun and go down with it as well. We worship God, and try to do his will every day. We raise our kids with the best morals, and love our neighbors as we do our brothers. If you don't like it, then you should scroll on. Thanks!
thanks for this comment, as one of the writers of this song, that means so much to me, after 34 years, the song still resonates with Americans.
A lot of great songs ,this one should be playing at every event ,
Back when we really were proud and free.
as one of the writers I am honored that you love our song.
@@larryalderman8919 I am honored to have a writer of this classic American song write me. I always loved it.
Thank you for writing such a beautiful tune.
@@ClassicTrucker great to know ya.. thanks. My son is a truck driver. My uncles all were, I drove a Oil tanker, supply Army.. We first had the song as a trucker, (I drive an old eighteen wheeler) was first line...
Best country in the world. Love her or leave her...USA retired.
I do need to say one more thing. I live in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania called Emmaus. This town is just like the one in this video. Pennsylvania Dutch, people walking down the street hand-in-hand. Ol Glory wavin' in the air all over (especially on the Fourth of July!) It is located about 45 minutes north of Philadelphia. Very very nice!!
Reminds me of growing up in the Appalachians of West Virginia. Sounds like driving through that little dot on the map called Liberty, WV.
that's so cool, as one of the writers of this song, I can tell you, we based it on my Appalachian hometown of Mt. Airy NC.. Mayberry, when i was a kid, old men sat on benches and played checkers on main street ...
Great video, so glad you shared. God Bless America. America, let's not loose her! Moe Bandy did a super job here. When I was growing up we played softball almost every Sunday in the summers. I sure have some great memories of those early years.
Clear back in the 1980s - the exact year I can't remember for certain - my wife and I had just moved to a small country town Snyder County in Pennsylvania. In the fall of that year we went for the first time to the annual Bean Soup Festival. It was that night we saw and heard for the first time Moe Bandy who sang a number of his hit songs. But when he sang "Americanna," I immediately fell in love, not only the song, but even more so with the lyrics which so eloquently expressed, and still do, of those small but common elements over time that have helped make, shape, and preserve all that is great about America. As Moe sang it, I can recall tears beginning to well up with the message it conveyed. Here it is 2018 - almost 30 years later - I am sitting here watching Moe's video, and my eyes once again well up with tears long after that night at the Bean Soup Festival and the countless times I have heard it since. Though my wife who has since passed away, she was and still would be moved by the true feelings expressed in these lyrics. I would hope that during these turbulent times that we may all stop and reflect upon all that is beautiful and great and what makes each of us "---people proud and free." Thanks so much for sharing this memorable Moe Bandy classic.
Beautifully written ♡♡
so glad you love our song, it was great to write this and be a part of it, you are the people we write these for, I love my country!!
I live in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania called Emmaus. Emmaus is exactly like the town depicted in this video! American flags are everywhere! Very friendly people and a beautiful town square (actually, it's a triangle!) I love this town and I love this country!!
glad you like the song, we loved writing it, I am from Mt Airy NC originally , been in Nashville for 40 years as a songwriter guitarist, the song is based on my hometown which is the real Mayberry, Andy Griffiths hometown. glad it is like your town! I grew up playing guitar outside Floyds Barbershop, and these old men played checkers on a bench and sold newspapers on a stand, so I put it in the song...
Wow I'm a musician an I listen to all music that is touching with inspiration and this is what this songs brings to the heart mind and soul
Thank You Moe Bandy, This song Brings me back to the small town i grew up in. 5***** for the video.
I used to listen to this song all the time on the tv... True country music i think the channel was called... after we moved, and my brother left the house, taking the tv, i stopped listening to this song for years... not by choice. I didn't know the name of the song, or the singer... one part, the chorus, was stuck in my head that whole time, and not even the whole chorus... americana... thats all i could remember. but when i looked it up, all I got was halsey.... then I heard the song on Iheart radio... it was damn good luck. i was so happy to hear it again. and now i know the name, and whos it by... i love that... so thank you iheart radio!!!!!
glad you love our song, was so glad to write this and you are the people we write for everyday
still this song means so much. thankful.
Oh for the Norman Rockwell days again.I'm English but first went to New York City back in te early 50's when in the Merchant Marine a great song for your great nation. God Bless You All.
Still one of the greatest singers of all time.
There is still America like this ... I have faith
So do I. I still believe in what this country stands for!
+Wayne D I disagree the America in this song no longer exist
+John K yeah it does,you just have to get away from the cities
Bill Gillett No I disagree the times have changed the America in the song no longer exist It is sad.
Bill gillett .. just keep running.
I love this song. Live in Canada. Been truckin through the good old usa since seventies. Great people. Met a lot of great friends. A lot of lifetime friends. Some are gone now. Take care America.
I prey this sacred song goes untainted, just like the song l used to love.
as one of the writers I am honored that you love our song.
One of the best songs ever made..
The land is still basically the same. Its the people that have changed.
the land is not even close to being the same !
You said: "The land is still basically the same"
Well except for all the, you know, toxic chemicals/things/pollution in the air/water/soil.
Spot ON, Bri*n!
They choose to change. Not all of us abandon our roots
Always loved this tune
Great song & great job of singing by Moe.
RIP 9/11 victims. Our prayers and condolences go out to you and your families and friends 15 years later today and every day. 9/11/2016.
Save a prayer for America tonight.....
HAPPY 4th To Our Americana And The Great Love We Shared Over The Loving Years With Each Other , Say A Prayer For A Blessed God Loving America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 THE U.S.A. ❤️😇🙏🙏🙏 Love To All Theresa &. Ronnie ,share some Love ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Such a special special song 👍🙏🏻
as one of the writers, I am so honored that you feel that way, thanks, made my day, God bless America!!
Great song! Great land! I live in the small city of Easton, PA and, in the center square, they always have a beautiful American flag flying. I love it!!
+Niklas Enblom I live in PA also ! America is still great but it's not the same as it was when I was growing up in the 1950s !
That's too bad. God bless you and God bless Americana!
I live in (eh) Southern Illinois city of M*rion (11 ye*rs *T LE*ST NOW!)
Man I had this cassette when I was a kid, it was a very different time, I wish I could go back sometimes.
A CITY ON A HILL, TRULY BLESSED BY GOD ❤❤❤
love this comment, we were proud to write this and honored that our country loved it.
@@larryalderman8919 you wrote a really good one
@@jandeband thanks, it was an honor to be part of it.
Still loving him! As a kid and now I'm 54!
Me too... I'm 47 and remember his songs playing on the juke box
If you got ten minutes
One of the best /by One of the best.
so honored that you love our song. we were proud as veterans ourselves to write this about how we feel about the USA
we saw Moe a couple years ago he put on a GREAT show!!
Wish I could have heard something like this in 1968!
God save this country! Good song!!!!
"Americana" is a masterful song of reassurance that our country is indeed still intact, at least at the grassroots where it matters. Great song, Moe, keep it up...we sure need guys like you, and of course, we need our God!
thanks so much for a nice comment. Moe is a great guy, I was honored that he recorded and loved our song, as veteran myself, we wrote about our love for our country.
It is my Sincere belief that Moe Bandy wrote his music with ladies in mind why you might ask? because he thinks women's lives are in the balance he is not the only one. he wants you to do what he did become singer/songwriter's! Tommy West
Don't ever let no one tell you any different moe bandy and USA the best
we were so proud to write this, go America!!
Came from a small mill town in Connecticut...this is it!!!
This song is an absolute work of art such an amazing song.
thanks Brandon. glad you love our song!
So sad, it was an America I knew in the 1980's and there was a faint glimmer of hope.
i saw this music video on american soldier channel here in korea in early 90's . a sea of US soldiers have stationed on the korean peninsular since korean war 1950. i know that a lot of US young men died for the peace for the not well known country. god speed your love to america cheers from korea
Moe Bandy, Mark Chestnut, Sammy Kershaw & Doug Stone are all very under-rated
male country singers. Add Gene Watson to this list also.
What about John Conlee?
kenneth cassada You wise amigo 🇲🇽
Steve Wariner, Earl Thomas Conlee...
This song reminds me of the America that I grew up in . I worry about my children and grandchildren on what America has become . Thank God they live in a little small town on The Suwannee river in North Florida where those values still exist. I know there's a lot of Good people in this country that feel the same as I do. We have to get our America back we are losing it fast . God-bless America
I love Moe Bandy!!! This is my husbands favorite song by Moe.I just purchased this cd...Love Till I'm too old to die young..also..!!! :)
I would like to say thanks to your husband, and it was an honor to write this, I still feel this way!!
Needed this today.
God bless America!
May 2024. We need this song more
thanks so much for this sweet comment, as one of the writers I am honored that it means this much to you.
I just listened to Americana, Moe we sure need that song now, that's a great song, I'm a former Bullrider at your Arena in Adkins. Timmy Langston.
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i love listening to this song, it helps people see that life is still good
so glad you like this song, we were so proud to write it, still feel this way today
One of his best songs, thanks