American Standard Lyrics: Patrick Sprowls (sprowls@well.com) Scott Holcomb (lgtsotr@earthlink.net) Music: Scott Holcomb (lgtsotr@earthlink.net) / / / / |-------------------------------------| |--------------------p----------------| |-----------0-------2^0---0---0---0---| |-------2-------2-------2---0---0-----| |---3---------------------------------| |-------------------------------------| C C Well, here in Electric City F C Built the Calvin Coolidge dam C With American Standard concrete G And a Russian, Cuban, Jewish man C With day-glow paint on money F C We've had visions once or twice C As our flags wave on the boulevard G C Our morals carved in ice C We're playing pineful anthems F C Of the mighty echoplex C In a Mormon tribal fashion G For our popes and heretics C We rub our flesh with tenderloin F C And wash our souls with sesame C We'd like to buy the world a Coke G C And sing in perfect harmony F G C F American standard We aim to please G C F American standard Love everyone, and everything we see G C F American standard We aim to please G Am American standard We brand the cattle and the children Conviction's firm when we know what's ours Apples, onions, mustard, relish Basketball, and foreign cars Hip, hip, hooray for Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Wayne Three gracious cheers for God almighty And all aboard the gravy train American standard We aim to please American standard Love everyone, and everything we see American standard We aim to please American standard Hip, hip, hooray for Louis Armstrong, Freddie Mercury, and John Wayne, Three gracious cheers for God almighty And all aboard the gravy train We got no secrets, got no fears You call our names, you've got our ears We say our prayers for third world babies Baskin' in these our gold years American standard We aim to please American standard Love everyone, and everything we see American standard We aim to please American standard Love everyone, and everybody now American standard Love everybody now American standard I see you wave your sunny day American standard I see you wave your sunny day American standard Like a princess on parade American standard Like a junkie in the shade American standard Like the promises we made American standard Like more fodder for our braves American standard And the morals we have saved American standard Like a princess on parade American standard I see you wave your sunny day American standard Up and down Magnolia Boulevard American standard And up and down 8th avenue American standard And up and down Lahoya Boulevard American standard And up and down Columbus Avenue American standard And up and down Pekoe Boulevard American standard Avenue A, and Avenue D, and Avenue C, baby American standard I see you wave your sunny day American standard You're a princess on parade American standard Drinkin' gin and lemonade American standard You're a princess on parade American standard We aim to please American standard We aim to please American standard Love everyone and everything we see American standard