Lyrics

Harley didn't have no education he could hardly read and write  
He was locked into a dead-end occupation his future didn't look too bright  
He worked eighteen years on the assembly line  
Just gettin' by with a little bit of overtime  
And that could be the end of this story of mine but it's just the beginning  
Late one night when he was workin' graveyard Harley got himself this big  
idea  
All he's have to do is change one little screw a save millions of dollars a  
year  
So he worked and he saved till he could open his own shop  
Money started rollin' in like it wasn't gonna stop  
So Harley bought a mountain built a mansion on top  
So the losers could see whom was winnin'  
Only in America with nothin' but a dream only in America where every man's  
king  
  
First Harley's daughter Janet found a guru she gave him everything she  
owned  
Then Harley junior joined some kind of rockband  
And walked around all day about half stoned  
His wife watched TV all the time cause she got bored  
Then one day she found a TV preacher she adored  
And she gave all of Harley's hard earned money to the Lord  
Harley started drinkin' wound up in Betty Ford to see if he could by a  
happy ending  
Then some kid who worked in Harley's factory he got himself this big idea  
Figured out how to do it with compures drove Harley out of business in a  
year  
Now Harley's back working the assembly line  
Just gettin' by with a little bit of overtime  
But don't count Harley out cause he ain't the quittin' kind  
He stares at that computer with one thing on his mind  
How to make them things more user-friendly  
Only in America  
Only in America

Song details

Artist: Johnny Cash