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American Middle Class
Angaleena Presley

[Chorus]

Tear this poorhouse down when you know how to build it back

Hammer and nail between your heart and your hometown

'Til you can carry this country on your back


[Verse 1]

Momma glued the Keds signs on the back of my little white shoes

Daddy never crossed the picket line

It was hard but we made it through

Only had one little pair of stonewashed jeans with a label on the back

I'm a product of the never-give-up American middle class

[Chorus]

Tear this poorhouse down when you know how to build it back

Hammer and nail between your heart and your hometown

'Til you can carry this country on your back


[Verse 2]

I got my education at a school they could afford

Scholarships went to the rich and the grants went to the poor


So I stood behind the little downtown bar

For spending money, books and gas

To be a certified member of the work-too-much American middle class


[Verse 3]

Now Daddy can't get his pension or Social Security

Worked thirty damn years in a coal mine feeding welfare families

Struggle hard and hide it well, you sure ain't rich

And you sure as hell ain't poor enough to get one little break

Cause everything would collapse

Without the hardworking God-loving members of the American middle class


[Chorus]

Tear this poorhouse down when you know how to build it back

Hammer and nail between your heart and your hometown

'Til you can carry this country on your back


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