"AMERICA'S STILL STANDING TALL" genre: Country General
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	No American can ever erase the mental images of the Twin Towers collapse following the terrorist attacks on the morning of 11 September 2001. Parallels to the attack on America at Pearl Harbor exactly 60 years earlier are inescapable. This moving ballad was written and produced in the hours immediately following the tragedies of 9/11 to commemorate the story of an enduring America still standing tall in the aftermath of both disasters. This song has the power to touch every generation of Americans. It's the title track for the band's popular special edition CD: "The American Trilogy." Audience reaction to this song helped inspire the one-hour worldwide web radio simulcast on December 7th 2001: "America Standing Tall: The United Way Radio Concert For America." It also inspired the new national tour of The Front Porch Country Band, "America Standing Tall: The Rolling Concerts For America." This song closes the band's shows -- to standing ovations. A great tribute to email to a veteran or friend serving in the U.S. armed forces. Note: also released as a special band project by "The Americans." Written & recorded immediately after the terrorist attacks and released one week later on 18 September 2001. (To view the complete lyrics, simply click on the art for this song.)
	MP3.com CD: America Standing Tall - buy it! CD: AMERICA STANDING TALL -THE AMERICAN TRILOGY-   Label: USAgency Entertainment Credits: Words & Music © 2001 RWGathman for The Front Porch Country Band. All rights reserved worldwide. USAgency Songs (BMI).
	Story Behind the Song The band showed up for a scheduled rehearsal on September 16, 2001, just five days after the terrorist attacks on America on 911. Like the rest of the nation, they were still emotionally distraught, still reeling from the impact of the attacks on their homeland. Rather than rehearse, they instead poured themselves into creating an original new work of music to express what they and millions of their fellow Americans were feeling. After a marathon 36-hour writing and recording session, America Standing Tall - The American Trilogy was produced and released to radio stations on 18 September 2001 as a tribute to America's fallen heroes of September 11 exactly one week earlier. "America Standing Tall" was soon rolling across the country on ariwaves from New York to Hawaii. "I had only one thought as I watched the horror of those massive World Trade Towers collapsing: 'Whoever's doing this to us, you don't understand. We're Americans. We'll be back, stronger than ever. Standing taller than ever. We wanted to create a song that would inspire other Americans who felt just like we felt. We wanted to create a song that said to other Americans and to the world, 'The spirit of America is not about our buildings. We're not about our airlines or our material wealth or our military power. America is about the heart. And they hadn't taken that or killed that. They hadn't even gotten close. All through our history America has always come back from attacks like this and we'll come back from this too. Every generation of Americans has stood up to aggression like this and every new generation will always stand up to this. We grew up with all the stories of our parents' generation standing up to the aggression of Pearl Harbor in World War II. It's the model now. It's how our nation can prevail in the face of this new terror attack. "As a band, we felt the need to do this. We took it personally. This song is our shared personal statement. We felt it down to the marrow of our bones as we worked together, non-stop for 36 hours. It was one unified statement from this band and we wanted the entire world to know: America's Still Standing Tall Tonight!" - Reflections One Year Later: Comments on by the six members of The Front Porch Country Band on 18 September 2002 as they looked back one year after recording their historic release, "The American Trilogy." Lyrics AMERICA STANDING TALL Words & Music © 2001 RWGathman for The Front Porch Country Band. USAgency Songs (BMI). All rights reserved worldwide. The whole world still remembers The 7th of December America's bright blue skies Turned red with fire Over calm Pacific water A place they call Pearl Harbor No warning came - 1941 Then freedom called a nation The "Greatest Generation" Stood as one - America heard the call When the war was finally over The whole world watched in wonder At America standing straight and proud and tall CHORUS And America's still standing tall tonight With freedom's beacon shining strong and bright And if I'm the last man standing I'll stand for all that's right America's still standing tall tonight Now the world will long remember The 11th of September America's bright blue skies Burned red with fire Over calm Atlantic water Our peaceful New York harbor No warning came - the year 2001 Now freedom calls a nation And the latest generation of Americans Will stand and hear the call And when there's no more terror The whole world will watch in wonder At America standing straight and proud and tall CHORUS And America's still standing tall tonight With freedom's beacon shining strong and bright And if I'm the last man standing I'll stand for all that's right America's still standing tall tonight And America's still standing tall tonight With freedom's beacon shining strong and bright And if we're the last one's standing We'll stand for all that's right America's still standing tall tonight

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