Lyrics: Ketch Secor/Jody Stevens
Music: Ketch Secor/Jody Stevens
Here’s a little story ‘bout the train I ride
The steam locomotive called the stars and stripes
Stoked up and cutting thru the countryside
Hear the wheels a rolling
Hear the whistle blowing,
Howdy Do America
She’s climbing up the mountain
Through the redwood grove
Cross the painted desert where the cactus grow
Over the Mississippi where the paddle wheels go
Hear the bells a ringing
Can’t keep from singing
Howdy Do America
Maybe you’re from Montana, or up in Indiana
Oklahoma, Arizona, down in Alabama
Waving out the window at the land we love
Howdy Do America
Flying to Philadelphia on the Liberty Bell
A jet airliner that you all know well
Over farms and fields and you give the folks a yell
Passing over prairies
Superior and Erie
Howdy Do America
Maybe you’re from Colorado
New Hampshire or Nevada
Alaska, Nebraska, or somewhere down in Florida
Just a waving out the window at the land we love
Howdy Do America
Singing hey ya’ll, how’s it going
Greetings salutations
Hey yo, whatcha know
All across the nation
It don’t really matter which words you say
As long as you say ‘em with a smile on your face
Now my thumbs out, heading south
Bumming me a ride
Gotta make it home to see my newborn child
She was born on the morning of the 4th of July
Howdy Do America
Maybe you’re from Minnesota, or one of the Dakotas
Utah, Arkansas, Maine or California
We are one big nation under God above
Where the tough gets going
When the going gets tough
And there ain’t no wonder it’s the land I love
Howdy Do America