Mom's Apple Pie

                 California highway, not far from Sebastopol
                 Sign saying "This way to Mom's Apple Pie",
                 Thoughts of times long ago, such bittersweet memories
                 Wrapped up in the taste of my mom's apple pie.
                 "We make our pies out of Gravenstein apples,
                 Spices from Saigon and faraway lands,
                 We use only the best, here, I'll give you a sample
                 Like Mama, we make them with warm loving hands."
                 Isn't it just what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie.
                 Isn't it just what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie.

                 It was a cool autumn morning, pie on the stove cooling,
                 Telephone ringing, mom's eyes filled with tears,
                 If I live to a hundred I still won't understand it
                 Why daddy only got to live 25 years.
                 A child still has faith in the wisdom of mama
                 But though you keep asking she can't tell you why,
                 Just "His country called and he had to answer
                 It was his duty to fight and his duty to die."
                 She said "Child, remember what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie,
                 Always remember what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie."

                 The war drums are beating, hear the speeches on TV
                 You know that our leaders will stay safe at home,
                 Send our sons and our daughters off to some foreign country
                 To be chewed up and spit out and die there alone.
                 All over the world more people are marching
                 Nairobi to Paris it's all the same voice,
                 Sending a message to those with the power
                 "Live in peace or in pieces", it's down to a choice.
                 Friends, is it still what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie?
                 Is it still what America stands for:
                 Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie?

 
©2003 Maria Larson