I simply share this heartfelt cry:
ARVE Error: need id and provider
Regardless of Simon’s politics, this song best expresses the American’s cry of today. Let us give him credit for at least not being Springsteen or Streisand.
There is also a wonderful symbiotic relationship with the message of this song and Simon’s use of Bach’s chorale from St. Matthew Passion – which forms the melody of that great hymn, ‘O Sacred Head Now Wounded.’
While Simon may have been a liberal lamenting the America he saw in 1973; I think there are some things that are written for one time, but are actually prophetically birthed to express the joys or lamentations of a later time. American Tune fulfills that mystical occurrence – for now we have really come to the “age’s most uncertain hour” – and the sovereignty of our unique American tune teeters on the brink of destruction.
~ Susan D. Harris
