and i d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, but there ain t no doubt i love this land, god bless the usa. bill: if you have followed this story there is a backtracking underway on behalf of the school administrators who planned to pull that song off the program. kind of, sort of. students at an elementary school in massachusetts will sing lee greenwood s classic i love the usa they tried to remove the word god, the parents flipped out, so diddle did lee greenwood.