Country music singer and songwriter Lee Greenwood said putting God first was a “conscious thought” with “no doubt about it” when he wrote the lyrics to his iconic patriotic song “God Bless the USA.”
“‘God Bless the USA’ represented for me my love of the country,” Greenwood said in a recent episode of EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program.
He said his belief in the military, as well as his belief that he was a Christian and needed to express that, both played an important part in writing the song.
The song was originally released in 1984. That same year, he sang it at the Republican National Convention (RNC) for Ronald Reagan….