THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM…© 2020, 2021 Elton Houck….my SONG TITLE…. REPRINTED FROM AUTHOR’S BOOK “THE 6TH DAY—EXILED FROM THE GARDEN” by Elton Houck ©2015 Outskirts Press “THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM” © 1988, 2015 Elton Houck / China Co-op Music Publishing-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------”…….. …… CHORUS …It’s the American scene/The great American dream/Sometimes days just bring you down/Though you plan and scheme/You need some help…but there’s none around/Welcome to the GREAT AMERICAN DREAM…/---VERSE 1..Stan’s doing the best he can/Just to hold on for another day/He’s got a part-time job/The rent’s due and got a baby on the way/---VERSE 2..Joann’s so sweet and never complains/With troubles pouring down like hard rain/She can see his worried look/And Stan…he feels her pain…/REPEAT CHORUS…/---VERSE 3..And Stan just wants to be a family man/To have a home, a child, a wife/He’s doing the best he can/To give them a better life/---VERSE 4..Sometimes he just can’t hide it/The tears well up from inside/But he’s gotta make it for another day/The American dream ain’t no free ride…/---VERSE 5..Late at night when Joann’s fast asleep/Stan sits alone and wonders why/Wishes and dreams are so hard to keep/And it don’t work out, no matter how hard you try…/VERSE 6..Hears a lonesome train whistle in the night/And wonders if it knows of his pain/That all his hope had taken flight/And Stan don’t know why and can’t explain…/---REPEAT CHORUS…… ===============================================================================================================================================================================================================Note..The original art previously titled,,:HALE--THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES'"======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== =========