Country Song May We All Meaning

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Country songs usually have a good meaning to them and more many people the music is nice to listen to people enjoy hearing it. With country music there is usually a meaning behind it weather it is a truck, back roads, problem or just the good old country way. Country music has many meanings to it depending on what the song is and they expand farther than just these examples. In the song May We All there is many lines that catch my eye and I can relate to. The first line of the song is “May we all get to grow up in our red, white and blue little town” (1). I see this as may everyone be able to live in a small USA town where everyone is out to help you not to get you. “Get a won't-start-hand-me-down Ford to try to fix up” (2) this right here

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