I Miss America Lyrics - Harry Chapin

By the time I was thirteen I started takin' shape 

At eighteen I was so beautiful that the strangers started to gape 

They told me enter the ultimate contest 

If you're as gorgeous as you seem 

They said, "Please, please, please be our American dream" 

But late that night beneath the grievin' moon 

There's a dazzling sight in my motel room 

For a grunting judge with his bulging eyes 

I give my all for his cherished prize 

Oh why, oh why? 

I, I Miss America crying on TV 

Silver clad in satin rags 

But everything's where it should be 

Oh say, can you see? Oh say, can you see? 

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After they showed me the game ball they told me put on weight 

They told me I'd be so powerful, then they told me I would be great 

They told me Uncle Sam he would coach you, his helmet on your head 

And they said, "Please, please, please, please 

Please win and beat the spread" 

But the new game plan that the owners had made 

Meant that win or lose there would be a little trade 

For the team's become a real gold mine 

And the kid's sold off for the bottom line 

Oh why, oh why? 

Mr. America sweating on TV 

The winner's joy from the battered boy 

For everything's where it should be 

Oh say can, you see? Oh say, can you see? 

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At last we've come together, call it marriage or civil war 

If it brings us to battle, babe, it must be worth our fighting for 

Though today came up cloudy, there will be other days 

Oh, please, please, please, please 

What else is there to say? 

But in plywood spread, by a plastic stream 

And in separate beds with a borrowed dream 

And with questions wide, the silence deep 

We take two pills so at last we'll sleep 

Oh why, oh why? 

Mr. and Mrs. America, our story's on TV 

Can you hear canned laughter? 

For everything's where it should be 

Oh say, can you see? Oh say, can you see? 

My little boy he told me something just the other night. 

He whispered it as I kissed him before I turned out the light 

And of course he said it simple as only children can 

He said, "Daddy, daddy, daddy, please 

I'm ready to dream again"