Where indeed? Music and film legend Pat Boone has a new single out asking that very question. And he has plenty of commentary to give about where he sees the country going off the rails — and how to bring it back.
Pat talked with me yesterday about his new song, “Where Did America Go”, and about his perspective on the changes and challenges facing our country. He’s now 90 years old but still working almost as much as ever, and seems decades younger in spirit. In our conversation, Pat talked about the need to return to the concept of America as a godly nation in the constitutional form created by its founders. That comes directly from the song itself, where one verse laments:
That old Constitution
Still holds the solution
But we gave up our freedoms for sale ..
The song, Pat tells me, was a conscious effort to return to folk music as a form of social protest. He wanted to write a Bob…