We'd just started to circle the Philly AP - our first touchdown in the states - when the pilot crancked up the intercom and out came Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA"*
The everyone on the plane went wild! Hooting,whistling, cheering! It's like a light switch had been switched on.
(grin) Even to this day I never hear that song without breaking out in a big grin.
* Back In The USA
Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today,
We touched ground on an international runway
Jet propelled back home, from over the seas to the U. S. A.
New York, Los Angeles, oh, how I yearned for you
Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge
Let alone just to be at my home back in ol' St. Lou.
Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway?
From the coast of California to the shores of Delaware Bay
You can bet your life I did, till I got back to the U. S. A.
Looking hard for a drive-in, searching for a corner caf
Where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day
Yeah, and a juke-box jumping with records like in the U.S.A.
Well, I'm so glad I'm livin' in the U.S.A.
Yes. I'm so glad I'm livin' in the U.S.A.
Anything you want, we got right here in the U.S.A.
Uh, I'm at work and, uh, I've got something in my eye.....