America chords by Stephen Lynch

SimplifiedG · C · D · Em

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Verse 1
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Alright.
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D 
G 
Hey, hey what do you say?
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G 
I come from a place called the U.S. of A.
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D 
Ho, ho what do you know?
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D 
Hop in my car and let's go.

Verse 2
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Well this is a song for America,
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D 
Home of the red, white, and blue.
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Land of Marilyn Monroe
and James Dean,
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G 
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
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G 
And if you don't love her fuck you.

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Verse 3

Beloved by all from Tikrit to Beijing,

If the world were a school we'd be

homecoming king.

Worshiped by France and by

North Vietnam,

Afghanistan thinks we're the bomb.

Verse 4
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Oh, this is a song for America,
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D 
Home of the red, white, and blue.
C 
G 
Land of Marilyn Monroe
and James Dean,
C 
G 
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
C 
G 
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
D 
And if you don't love her,
G 
fuck you.

Verse 5
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Our human rights record is
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Em 
something of note:
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G 
We freed all our slaves and gave
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Em 
women the vote.
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C 
Everyone's equal forever, always,
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D 
Unless you're one of them gays.

Verse 6
G 
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Oh, this is a song for America,
G 
D 
Home of the red, white, and blue.
C 
G 
Land of Marilyn Monroe
and James Dean,
C 
G 
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
C 
G 
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
C 
G 
Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine,
D 
And if you don't love her
G 
fuck you.

Verse 7
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To all war-torn nations, nations,
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Em 
to those in turmoil,
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We'll help you kill despots,
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we'll help you drill oil,
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D 
And  if you don't want our help, that's ok
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G 
D 
We're coming in anyway.

Verse 8
G 
D 
Oh, this is a song for America,
G 
D 
Home of the red, white, and blue.
C 
G 
Land of Marilyn Monroe
and James Dean,
C 
G 
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
C 
G 
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
C 
G 
And if you don't love her, fuck you.
Crack cocaine,
Abu Ghraib, and nicotine,
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G 
Swindling CEOs getting off clean,
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Housewives all hopped up on
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amphetamine,
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G 
C 
Nipples get rated NC-17,
G 
FEMA and levies and
Hurr'cane Katrine
Em 
George Bush's great rolling war machine.
C 
D 
G 
I think we're in trouble, don't you?

Verse 9
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It might seem I don't think
D 
our country's so great,
Em 
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G 
But intolerance, bigotry,
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Em 
greed's what I hate.
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D 
Em 
Most folks are honest and  decent and true,
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G 
Peaceful, compassionate,
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Em 
good through and through.
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D 
That's what it means to be red,
Em 
white, and blue,
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D 
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And if you don't think so fuck you,
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If you don't think so fuck you.