Today, after I started chanting Allen Ginsberg’s “America” in my head I decided to put me out of my misery and just listen to it already. It was while thumbing through the songs that I realized I have a lot of American music. To wit:

• America, Self
• America, Simon & Garfunkel
• America (Closing Time) Tom Waits & Allen Ginsberg
• America the Beautiful, Frank Sinatra
• America the Beautiful, Neil Young
• American Car, Mike Doughty
• American Dream, Lucinda Williams
• American Dreaming, Dead Can Dance
• American Gigolo, Weezer
• American Girl, Soul Coughing & Weezer
• American Girl, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• American Girl, Of Montreal (a cover of the Tom Petty song)
• American Girls, Counting Crows
• American Music, The Hold Steady
• American Music, Violent Femmes
• America Pie, Don McLean

I was surprised to discover that I don’t have Neil Diamond’s “America.” Wonders never cease.