"America the Beautiful" (George Carlin's version)

[NashvilleLefty]

I just watched (again) the Obama ad showing Mittens (trying to) sing "America the Beautiful"

Whenever I hear (or think of) that song, I can't even remember the original lyrics. My mind automatically go to George Carlin's version, which are even more appropriate today than when he first sang them.

This is from memory. Feel free to Google it and check my memory:

Oh, beautiful, for smoggy skies,
Insecticided grain;
For strip-mined mountain's majesty
Above the asphalt plain!

America, America,
We shed our waste on thee!
And hide her pines
With billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!

[geckosfeet]

1. He was a prophet.

A bit cynical, but reality based.