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To celebrate our day of independence and the much-needed three-day weekend, we asked our readers to tell us their favorite “American” songs. It was a hard-fought battle for the song most worthy of the stars and stripes, but in the end Tom Petty’s “American Girl” beat out tracks by Springsteen, Green Day and an invasion of British artists singing unpatriotic songs (The Clash, David Bowie) to be named the Readers’ favorite American Song. For the complete Rock List, check below:

1. Tom Petty – “American Girl”
2. Don McLean- “American Pie”
3. The Guess Who – “American Woman”
4. Simon & Garfunkel- “America”
5. Bruce Springsteen – “Born In The U.S.A.”
6. James Brown – “Living in America”
7. Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re An American Band”
8. David Bowie – “I’m Afraid of Americans”
9. David Bowie – “Young Americans”
10. Green Day – “American Idiot”
11. The Clash- “I’m So Bored with the U.S.A.”
12. Neil Diamond - “America”
13. Wilco – “Ashes Of American Flags”
14. R.E.M.- “Little America”
15. Ray Charles - “America The Beautiful”