America The Beautiful chords by Charles Moore

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Verse 1
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What's up everybody,
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it's your boy Harry
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Representin' the world famous
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for show productions
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This one goes out to all the soldier
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s in the struggle
And I'm here to let you know,
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I feel ya
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America the beautiful,
that's the way it's supposed to be
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Well I must be blind, cause I can't see
Beauty in a nation,
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with poverty, crime and separation
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So, every time I turn around,
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I   see another brother
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gunning another brother
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down over a rock a kilogram or a pound
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then they dump him in the lost
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and found you know it makes me wonder
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will we ever get over first you need to
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get the chip off your shoulder
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then you need to change that attitude and
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kids you need to stay in school
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because you're gonna
need an education
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if you're gonna help shape
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your generation
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some people will tell you to shut up
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that's when you tell them to get up
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join hands with the brother
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Think back, go back,
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way back to the motherland
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When our people were free,
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America was beautiful
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It don't look so good to me
I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling
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I'm just struggling,
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trying to come up  in the blue
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When I was growing up, not long ago
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There were a whole lot of things
that I wanted to know
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Like what the hell are they fighting for?
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Why so many people so damn poor?
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still the government says times will change
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but some things remain the same
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like black on black crime
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welfare check lines
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and most of  those people are mine
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so let's be  realistics
not statistics
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use your mind to fight the power
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find the answers
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then the battle can be won
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so carry the knowledge
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you're not a handgun
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you're still calling them redskins
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they telling you not to
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but you're smiling like best friends
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let the people be free
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America the beautiful,
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it don't look so good to me
I'm just struggling, I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling
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Trying to come up  in it
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but not prepared
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I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling
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Trying to come up  in it
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America the beautiful,
that's the way it's sup
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posed to be
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Everyday we're getting closer
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to World War III
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Will it be the last one?
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If we drop the bomb,
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I know it's gonna be a fast one
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So every time I write a rhyme
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I'll be dropping a line, one rhyme at a time
So you can hear it, remem
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ber the sound of each word
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Then mark it like a mockingbird
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You played yourself
like you were playing the blues
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You played the game like
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you wanted to lose
But you got burned by a
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girl named Iris
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That still ain't found no  cure
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for the AIDS virus
How many times do I have
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to address you?
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I'm not on the mic gettin'
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paid to impress you
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Suicide bombers all in the street
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America the beautiful
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It don't look so good to me
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I'd like to thank you all for listening
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To excerpts from a hustler's dream
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Word to the wise
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Don't forget where you came from
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Yeah I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling
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I'm just struggling,
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I'm just struggling
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Tryna come up  in the