Live Introduction By Toby Of "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"

How many Americans do we have in here tonight?
In the days following September 11th last year
Everyone that was a poet or a writer or a songwriter of any kind
Had a reason to write some words down
Or some thoughts down on a piece of paper
And I was no different than anybody else

That's what you do when you do what I do
And huh, my father served in the army in the 50s
He lost his eye in a training combat mission, he came home
He put a flag up on the farm I was raised on

I lost him six months prior
To the attacks on New York City and The United States
And huh, that flag that flew out in that yard, it's flown there everyday
He raised me right, and he never bitched one time about losing his eye
I never heard him cry about it one time
He was glad to go do it, and that's why we're free today

And it's our turn to stand on what our fathers
And forefathers did for us and make sure we don't let'em down
I wrote a song in the following days after September 11th
It's called The Angry American, and I wanna send this out to my father tonight