It's a ball cap in his right hand

Looking up at the sky

Praying for rain but hoping it stops

Before the game on friday night

It's the home team and the whole town

Showing up in the stands

Hand on your heart for the stripes and stars

Fight song from a marching band.

It's a wave at a red light

Everybody knows your name.

It's a boy and a girl in a chevy truck

"John deere green" kicking up dust

Living those words from a song they're playin' on the radio

Generations deep running through these roots

What your daddy did is what you do

If you ask me

That's what makes the heartbeat of america.

It's a main-street parade for the ones who made it back home

And a moment of silence for the ones too soon gone

It's a god-fearing mamma trying to raise 'em right

Sunset falling from a water-tower sky

Whatever keeps that dream alive

You can find it here.

It's a boy and a girl in a chevy truck

"John deere green" kicking up dust

Living those words from a song they're playin' on the radio

Generations deep running through these roots

What your daddy did is what you do

If you ask me

That's what makes the heartbeat of america.

It's a preacher and a bible

A little church on the hill

Amazing grace

Jesus saves

In god we trust still.

It's a boy and a girl in a chevy truck

"John deere green" kicking up dust

Living those words from a song they're playin' on the radio

Generations deep running through these roots

What your daddy did is what you do

If you ask me

That's what makes the heartbeat of america

Of america

Of america.