Key: Gb major
Intro 1
G
Em
G
A
D
A
G
D
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D
G
Bm
D
Verse 1
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Bm
New York City rain
I don't know if it's making me
Went for the subway
A
Bm
A
D
A
For re pairs again
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F#m
A
D
Welcome to American
could spend forever
G
Bm
F#m
looking for a friend in this town and
till you're stumbling
A
D
A
G
drunk up the stairs again and the
Bm
A
The sign says welcome to American
F#m
A
D
G
D
Jer us alem
A
F#m
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In the temples of American Jerusalem
D
A
They buy an ounce of
F#m
D
South African gold
A
Bm
They don't care who was bought or sold,
G
Bm
A
D
A
D
or who died to mine it.
D
A
They're buying out of
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D
Marseilles White
A
Bm
Somewhere on a street with no light,
A
D
A
somebody dies trying it.
look in the kind of way
We'll be somebody who
D
G
knows what it's about
D
A
from her hair again
G
A
And welcome you to
F#m
A
American Jeru salem
D
G
D
Interlude 1
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Bm
F#m
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G
D
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Em
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D
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D
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G
Em
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A
D
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D
Bm
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Verse 2
F#m
A
of American Jerusalem
D
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D
The homeless lie down at the dawn
D
A
In the ashes of American Jerusalem
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A
The prophets live their deaths
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D
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D
But nobody heard it
A
Bm
G
Bm
Then shadows lick the sun
Bm
F#m
with footsteps on the run
Somebody must have got double
D
G
cause I got none
D
A
I forgot to collect my share again
G
A
So go west to breathe the
Bm
D
A
cleansing air again
A
G
Go on the road if you're gone
A
G
D
Till you come on home to America
A
A
D
In Jerus alem
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