Afraid I heard George Carlin’s version as a youth and it’s stuck in my head ever since:
How beautiful far smoggy skies
Insecticided grain
For stripmined mountain majesties
Above the asphault plains
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs
From sea to oily sea….
margueritem over 14 years ago
Bananas, that’s it! Above the banana’d plain……
JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago
GROAN
pearlandpeach over 14 years ago
Scott, F&E would love to cliam this one.
beyound witty.
celeconecca over 14 years ago
…the sign-towing bi-plane.
Fun pun!
eardroppings over 14 years ago
She also wrote it before she knew you, Joe. If she had, it might be America the Obnoxious
wicky over 14 years ago
Good pun.
LKD over 14 years ago
Well the least they could do is Ad Tropicana Oranges which grow in America unlike Bananas. :(
It’s sad, it took me for ever to remember “above the fruited plain”
bald over 14 years ago
and i wondered where some song writers got their inspiration
krusher2 over 14 years ago
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!
Had to look that one up (Not being from the US)
Digital Frog over 14 years ago
Afraid I heard George Carlin’s version as a youth and it’s stuck in my head ever since:
How beautiful far smoggy skies Insecticided grain For stripmined mountain majesties Above the asphault plains America, America, man sheds his waste on thee And hides the pines with billboard signs From sea to oily sea….
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
margueritem said, about 9 hours ago
Bananas, that’s it! Above the banana’d plain……
how about Banana Plane?
N.D.Pendent over 14 years ago
No, no you have it all wrong. The airplane has nothing to do with it at all. She is watching the Gay Rights Convention in the field beside her house.
Wilphart over 14 years ago
I guess this could be taken two ways:
1) a pun plain/plane
2) the fact that US farmers, i.e., fertile plains, are being replaced by imports.
lisa4romMpls over 14 years ago
LOL whichever way you see it.
lfanterickson over 14 years ago
Stan Freberg told me it was above the two cents plain.
zebraswirls over 14 years ago
Is it sad that I had to sing the song in my head to get it?
eardroppings over 14 years ago
Since no one else has seen it yet, I guess I’ll say it… this plane is headed for the Banana Republic..
notinksanymore over 14 years ago
Plantains are a type of banana. Plantains grow in Louisiana. Louisiana is in the United States. Ergo, bananas grow in the United States.
angfu21 over 14 years ago
Uh bananas grow in Hawaii and FSM which is federated U.S. territory.