Song of the Day - All American Boy - Steve Grand

It's not often that I would put up a country song here, but this one is special.  Once again, a relatively unknown recording artist, this time 23 year old country singer Steve Grand, has taken his music the independent route and hit the big time.  And what's so special about this story is that Grand is openly gay and the tune puts it all out there.

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The video for the song All American Boy was released independently on YouTube just last Tuesday and already has garnered over 600K hits. The tune has a familiar ring to it for anyone
who's grown up a gay man in this world.  Our hero, a young gay man, misreads signals from another man and ends up left in the dust with that unsatisfied longing for what could have been.

The video, which cost Grand $7K of his own money to make, adds an effective visual to the story told in the song, and the result is an indie smash from a genre not known for being so open about the topic.  The song is decidedly country, but like fellow indie artist Macklemore & Lewis, I am rooting for Grand.  You go boy!

All American Boy

Ripped Jeans, only drinks whiskey

I find him by the fire while his girl was getting friskey, ohh

I say we go this road tonight

He smiles, his arms around her

but his eyes are holdin me, just a captive to his wonder, ohh

I say we go this road tonight

now I know that that’s your girl, I mean no disrespect

The way that shirt hugs you chest boy, I just won’t forget

I’ll be sittin her, drinking my whiskey

I won’t say goodnight unless I think ya might miss me, ohh

Be my All-American boy tonight

where everyday’s the 4th of July

and its alright, alright

And we can keep this up till the morning light

and you can hold me deep in your eyes

and its alright, alright

be my, be my

my All-American boy

Ripped jeans, tight shirt

he lights a cigarette you know I’m glad that she can’t stand it, ohh

I drink the moonlight from his eyes
Now hold there, just a moment

I want to take this in now we don’t need no photo of it, no

we should go this road tonight
now I know that that’s your girl, and I don’t give a damn

she’s been cusin and cryin, she don’t know what she has

so I’ll be, sittin here, tryin hold down my whiskey,

you tell your girl good night cause somebody’d like to kiss me, ohh

Be my All-American boy tonight

where everyday’s the 4th of July

and its alright, alright

And we can keep this up till the morning light

and you can hold me deep in your eyes

and its alright, alright

be my, be my

my All-American boy

Of all the girls and boys to look my way

Ain’t no body ever hit me this way

so won’t you come back with me

and lay with me a while

I’m gonna wrestle you out of them clothes,

leave that beautiful body exposed,

and you can have my heart and my soul and my body…

just be mine

Be my All-American boy tonight
baby you light my fire

its gonna be alright, alright!

Be my All-American boy tonight

where everyday’s the 4th of July

and its alright, alright

And we can keep this up till the morning light

and you can hold me deep in your eyes

and its alright, alright

be my, be my…

just, be my, be my…

my All-American boy

Read more: http://www.lyricsprint.com/out/all-american-boy-steve-grand/#ixzz2YYIRCvRS

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