written by Chick Rains and Michael Martin Murphy
CAPO III
INTRO: G
Harley didn’t have no edu
cation
He could hardly read and w
rite
He was l
ocked into a dead-end occu
pation
His future didn’t look too
bright
He worked
18 years on the a
ssembly line
Just gettin’ by with a little bit of
overtime
And
that could be the end of the s
tory of
mine
But it’s just the beg
innin’
Late one night while he was workin’ g
raveyard
Harley got himself this big
idea
All he’d have to do is cha
nge one little screw
And s
ave millions of dollars a
year
So he w
orked and he saved ’til he could o
pen his own shop
Money started rollin’ in like it
wasn’t gonna stop
So
Harley bought a mountain and
built a mansion on
top
So the lo
sers could see who was wi
nning
CHORUS:
Only i
n Ameri
ca
With n
othin’
but [D/F#]a dr
eam
Only in A
merica
Where every man’s a
king
First Harley’s daughter Janice found a
guru
She gave him everything she o
wned
Then Harley Junior joined some kind of
rock band
And w
alked around all day about half s
toned
His
wife watched TV all the ti
me ’cause she got bored
T
hen one day she found a TV p
reacher she adored
And s
he gave all of Harley’s hard-earned
money to the
Lord
Harley started drinkin’ wound
up in Betty F
ord
To
see if he could buy a happy en
ding
Then some kid who worked in Harley’s
factory
He got himself this big i
dea
Figured out how to do it with c
omputers
Drove
Harley out of business in a y
ear
Now
Harley’s back workin’ the as
sembly line
J
ust gettin’ by with a little bit of
overtime
But d
on’t count Harley out ’cause he a
in’t the quittin’
kind
He stares at that computer with o
ne thing on his
mind
How to make them things more user f
riendly
CHORUS (2x)
G out
