Johnny Cash
Album: Boom Chicka Boom
Track: Harley
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Harley Lyrics (Chick Rains - Michael M. Murphey)
© '90 Bro'n Sis Music, BMI
Harley didn't have no education
He could hardly read and write
He was locked into a dead-end occupation
His future didn't look too bright
He worked eighteen years on the assembly line
Just gettin' by with a little bit of overtime
And that could be the end of this story of mine
But it's just the beginning
Late one night when he was workin' graveyard
Harley got himself this big idea
All he'd have to do is change one little screw
And save millions of dollars a year
So he worked and he saved till he could open his own shop
Money started rollin' in like it wasn't gonna stop
So Harley bought a mountain, built a mansion on top
So the losers could see, who was winnin'
Only in America, with nothin' but a dream
Only in America, where every man's a king
First Harley's daughter Jenny's found a guru
She gave him everything, she owned
Then Harley junior joined some kind of rock - band
And walked around all day about half stoned
His wife watched TV all the time, 'cause she got bored
Then one day, she found a TV preacher, she adored
And she gave all of Harley's hard earned money to the Lord
Harley started drinkin', wound up in Betty Ford
To see if he could buy a happy ending
Then some kid who worked in Harley's factory
He got himself this big idea
Figured out how to do it with computers
Drove Harley out of business, in a year
Now Harley's back, working the assembly line
Just gettin' by with a little bit of overtime
But don't count Harley out, 'cause he ain't the quittin' kind
He stares at that computer with one thing on his mind
How to make them things more user-friendly
Only in America, with nothin' but a dream
Only in America, where every man's a king
Only in America, with nothin' but a dream
Only in America, where every man's a king
-Solo-
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