LYRICS TO PINK HOUSES UPDATE
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You'll be belting out the lyrics by the end of the song as it has become a #ScottCounty favorite local ballad. As of today, it has over 3.3 million views on #YouTube alone. If you want to watch the music video on Mellencamp's official YouTube page, click on the link below. Now, ain't that America? If you know of any other people or local filming sites in the music video, please post below.

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The music video which was a hit on #MTV, is full of covered bridges, fields of corn, back roads, trucks, trains, motorcycles, average everyday citizens, buffalo, and horses. (Main riff starts on me and repeats for 4 times) Well there's a young man in a T-shirt. Ain't that C America home of the D free, yeah. Ain't that C America somethin' to G see baby. Pink Houses became a Top 10 hit in 1984 and was named by #RollingStones as #439 of their 500 Best Songs of all time. Chorus: Oh, but ain't that C America for you and me G. Craig worked for 60 years for the Morgan family as their personal horse trainer and groundskeeper. The second man in the green shirt tipping his hat to the camera is Floyd 'Fat' Craig (1913-1996). During the song's bridge, two Scott Countians are shown riding horses and lassoing cattle: the first is John Morgan - owner of Morgan Foods and Morgan Farms where part of the video was filmed. A few other local sites are included in the video: Morgan Farms just east of Austin on State Road 256 and Jackson Heights Mobile Home Park on North Boatman Road which was bedecked with American flags to play up the patriotic lyrics. Although the house is now white, it's unmistakeable when it's viewed in comparison to the music video. The pink house that is the key focal point of the video still stands today at 530 West York Road in Austin (it is a private residence and not open for tours). Goodin (1941-2013) had a brief cameo in the video in the closing scene dancing shirtless and waving his hat in front of Bedel's Store in Uniontown #Indiana which stood 8 miles north of #Austin on US Highway 31 and State Road 250. About 300 people turned out that day to catch a glimpse of Mellencamp and get his autograph.

LYRICS TO PINK HOUSES UPDATE

It was taken on September 15th and shows Mellencamp with his crew along with then Austin Police Chief John Adams and then Austin Town Board Member Harvey Goodin. Please help me get 50k sub New song out everyday, subscribe and click the bell to update the latest good songsStream. Today's #tbt picture is from the Septem'The Scott County Journal' newspaper. When it came time for filming the 1983 music video from his seventh album entitled 'Uh-Huh', one of locations he chose was Austin - just 18 miles from his native #Seymour. Mellencamp, who had already achieved star status at the time, was going by the name John Cougar Mellencamp. But one of his songs has ties to Scott County and is today's #ThrowBackThursday feature: Pink Houses.

Mellencamp, a native of neighboring Jackson County gave us great #American music heartland ballads such as 'Jack & Diane', 'Hurts So Good', 'R.O.C.K. And that’s sort of what ‘Pink Houses’ is about.Scott County Heritage Center & Museum - When most southern Indiana #Hoosiers think of #music, they think of one of their own: John Mellencamp. I don’t mean to get political, but I do get wound up about these kinds of things because so many people see it as it’s really not. I’m not condoning what Russia did, but that’s bullshit! There’s so many things we’ve done, and then we expect them to apologize when we had a spy plane beside the plane that got shot down! Let’s see the deal as it really was! And the majority of the public is going to fall right in line with the way Reagan wants them to think. He says, Lord this must be my destination.

It’s like the Russians shooting down that plane, and we want them to apologize. John Mellencamp - Pink houses Lyrics Click to play this song. It’s not rah, rah, rah America at all, and I think it puts America in its place.

Great writing with insightful lyrics and. The American dream has pretty much proven itself as not working anymore.” John Mellencamp (223) “It’s saying the American Dream and all that shit is propaganda. Recorded and released in 1983 on John Mellencamps album Uh-Huh this has become my all time favorite song by him. This one has been misconstrued over the years because of the chorus – it sounds very rah-rah. So I went with that positive route when I wrote this song. Everywhere i go you’re in my shadow I love how our relationship is so perfect it seems like a romance novel This is a list of all the old-time song lyrics available in this section, click on A,B, etc in to top nav-bar to go to the song pages or on 'old-time-songs home' to return to this page Each episode ends with a music video of the new song as. I thought, “Wow, is this what life can lead to? Watching the fucking cars go by on the interstate?” Then I imagined he wasn’t isolated, but he was happy. He was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. “I was driving through Indianapolis on Interstate 65 and I saw a black man holding either a dog or a cat.

Lyrics to pink houses