American Reckoning chords by Bon Jovi
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Intro 1
(G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4)
Verse 1
(G major) America's on (Gsus4) fire (G major) (Gsus4)
(G major) There's protests in (Gsus4) the street (G major)
(C major) Her conscience has been looted
And her soul is under siege (Csus2)
(A minor) Another mother's crying
(C major) As history repeats
I can't (G major) breathe (Gsus4) (G major)
(Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4)
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Verse 2
(G major) God damn those eight long minutes
Lying face-down in in cuffs on
the ground (Gsus4)
(Csus2) Bystanders pleaded (C major) for mer (Csus2) cy
As one (G major) cop (C major) shoved a kid in the crowd
(A minor) When did a judge and a jury
(C major) Become a badge and a knee
On these (G major) streets? (Gsus4) (G major)
Verse 3
(C major) Stay alive, (G major) stay alive
(A minor) Shine a light, (G major) stay alive
(E minor) Use your voice and you (G major)
remember me (C major)
American reck (G major) oning (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4)
Verse 4
(G major) I'll never know what it's like
To walk a mile in his shoes (C major)
And I'll never have to have the talk
Verse 5
So it don't happen to you
(A minor) Three little words written 'cross the chest
Of a (C major) twelve-year-old who who
who hasn't lived life yet
"Am I (G major) next?" "Am I next?"
Verse 6
(C major) Stay alive, (G major) stay alive
(A minor) Shine a light, (G major) stay alive
(E minor) Use your voice and you (G major)
remember me (C major)
American reck (G major) oning (Gsus4) (G major)
(E minor)
Interlude 1
(C major) (D major) (E minor) (C major) (D major)
(A minor) (C major) (G major)
Verse 7
Is this a moment or movement? (G major)
Is this the tide or a flood?
(C major) Is our American reckoning
Our story written in blood?
Or in (A minor) love?
Or in (C major) peace?
Interlude 2
(C major) (G major)
Verse 8
(C major) Stay alive, (G major) stay alive
(A minor) Shine a light, (G major) stay alive
(E minor) Use your voice and you (G major) remember me
(C major)
Verse 9
(C major) Stay alive, (G major) stay alive
(A minor) Shine a light, (G major) stay alive
(E minor) Use your voice and you (G major)
remember me (C major)
American reck (G major) oning
Outro 1
In our American reckoning
(G major)
American Reckoning
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