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| name = American Tune | cover = American Tune cover.jpg | alt = | border = yes | type = single | artist = Paul Simon | album = There Goes Rhymin' Simon | B-side = One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor | released = {{Start date|1973|11|09}} | format = {{Flat list|
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}} | chronology = Paul Simon | prev_title = Loves Me Like a Rock | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Take Me to the Mardi Gras | next_year = 1974 }} "American Tune" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the third single from his third studio album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), released on Columbia Records. The song, a meditation on the American experience, is based on the melody of the hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded". The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] LyricsIn an interview with Tom Moon in 2011, Paul Simon was asked about political references in his songs, and he said: "I don’t write overtly political songs, although American Tune comes pretty close, as it was written just after Nixon was elected."[2] The lyrics offer a perspective on the American experience; there are references to struggle, weariness, hard work, confusion, and homesickness. The bridge conveys a dream of death and of the Statue of Liberty "sailing away to sea". The song ends with an assertion that "you can't be forever blessed" before the lyrics return to the idea of work, tiredness, and resignation. MusicThe tune is based on a melody line from a chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," composed by Hans Leo Hassler.[3] The melody used for "American Tune" can be heard quite distinctly in part 1, number 21 and number 23 and in part 2, number 54. The melody to "American Tune" is similar to that of "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret" and "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," although Simon expanded on the tune. Personnel
Live performancesEventually it became a concert favorite, both for Simon and in reunion concerts with Simon's former singing partner, Art Garfunkel. The song appears on several of Simon's solo live albums and on Simon and Garfunkel's post-breakup live albums, most famously The Concert in Central Park. Simon performed the song live on November 18, 2008, during the airing of The Colbert Report,[4] and on September 11, 2015, to close out the last show of the first week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[5] Cover versionsThe song has been covered by many artists, notably Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Eva Cassidy, Ann Wilson, Gretchen Peters, the Indigo Girls, the Starland Vocal Band, Keane, Glen Phillips, Darrell Scott, Storyhill, Jerry Douglas, Kurt Elling, Shawn Colvin, Allen Toussaint, Curtis Stigers. Mandy Patinkin also recorded the song in Yiddish on his 1998 album Mamaloshen. In 2017 Elvis Costello released a non-album single version under the pseudonym "The Imposter". Paul Simon's own unfinished demo recording, with incomplete lyrics, was released as a bonus track on his There Goes Rhymin' Simon CD. Use and references in popular cultureThe song has been featured in the television series, Providence and The Wonder Years, and used as the theme song to Ken Burns documentary The Statue of Liberty. It is alluded to in the lyrics of "Independence Day" by Ferron on her album, Driver: "There's a Paul Simon song that just tears me apart... about the Statue of Liberty and hole in a heart." Lyrics from the song are also used at the beginning of Book 2 of Stephen King's The Stand. Simon performed the song at the pre-inaugural concert for Jimmy Carter, held at the Kennedy Center in Washington on January 19, 1977, the evening before Carter's swearing-in as president. In late October 2008, the progressive advocacy group Progressive Future produced a 60-second television ad featuring "American Tune" in support of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The "what's gone wrong" line underscored a photo of President George W. Bush and Obama's opponent John McCain standing close together. Charts
References1. ^Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications). 2. ^{{Cite web| title = Paul Simon Discusses Political References In Songs| author = | work = The Paul Simon Official Site| date = October 17, 2011| accessdate = 2017-12-25| url = http://www.paulsimon.com/news/paul-simon-discusses-political-references-songs/| quote = }} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Bennighof|first=James|title=The words and music of Paul Simon|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=2007|page=65|isbn=978-0-275-99163-0}} 4. ^Paul Simon on Colbert Report. Colbert Nation. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090910055520/http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/210692/november-18-2008/paul-simon-pt--1 |date=September 10, 2009 }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3qVRTdaAI|title=YouTube|website=www.youtube.com}} 6. ^{{cite journal| url= http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4963a.pdf| title= RPM100: Singles|volume=20|number=24|date=January 26, 1974| work = RPM| publisher = Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada| format = PDF| accessdate = November 12, 2015}} 7. ^{{cite journal| url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4996.pdf| title= The Programmers' Pop Music Playlist|volume=21|number=3|date=March 2, 1974| work = RPM| publisher = Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada| format = PDF| accessdate = November 12, 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Paul Simon|chart=Adult Contemporary}}|title=Paul Simon - Chart history|accessdate=November 13, 2015|work=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media}} External links
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