Toby Keith - Courtesy of The Red, White & Blue lyrics

How many Americans do we have in here tonight? In the days following September 11th last year Everybody that was a poet or a writer or a song writer of any kind Had a reason to write some words down Or some thoughts down on a piece of paper And I was no different than anybody else That's what you do when you do what I do And my father served in the army in the 50's He lost his eye in a training combat mission He came home, he put a flag up at the farm I was raised on I lost him six months prior to the attacks on New York city And the United States and that flag Flew out in that yard, it's flown there everyday He raised me right an' he never b**hed one time about losing his eye Never heard him cry about it one time He was glad to go, do it, that's why we're free today And it's our turn to stand on what our fathers and forefathers did for us And make sure we don't let 'em down I wrote a song in the following days after September 11th It's called the angry American I wanna send this out to my father tonight