Best song ever written by an American

There MUST be a few good ones ...

• "Tangled up in Blue" by Bob Dylan.

• Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (although it will always be Jeff Buckley's song to me)

• " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"- Hank Williams

  Anonymous

• Cohen's Canadian, r2.

• [quote]Cohen's Canadian, [R2]. Picky, picky, picky.

  Billy DeWolfe

• There are hundreds of good songs written by Americans. What an odd thread.

  America - 314 Million People

• Bloody Mary by Gaga

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Jerome Kern

• Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin Some Enchanted Evening - Rodgers & Hammerstein Night and Day - Cole Porter Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Paul Simon

• R9 I wouldn't call "Rhapsody in Blue" a song.

• Lots of Roy Orbison songs.

• lots of Duke Ellington

• Canada is in North America .

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• The Way You Look Tonight by Jerome Kern. Are there any others that even come close?

• My neck my back Lick my pussy and my crack

• Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

  LiLo

• What a stupid post. Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Carole King, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, David Johansen, David Byrne, Tupac, Eminem? American songwriters don't just write great songs - they create entire new forms of popular music. Even the Beatles were just working inside an American idiom, taking their songrwriting cues and name from Buddy Holly and their blues sensibility from Chuck Berry. No one else even comes close.