Girl America chords by Mat Kearney
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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My girl Amer
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ica is just a youth in this world
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Her smile is more precious than
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the sparkle of pearls
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And though her age reads
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she's just a young girl
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Age behind her eyes show the pain
that she's swirled
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Through the hand that's been dealt
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though it's quiet as kept
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The weight was all felt last night
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when she slept
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And as she crept into the dreams
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of the things of her past
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Seems to have grown so fast,
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way beyond her own class
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Though they're right there with her,
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hers brothers and her sisters
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A natural born leader even
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when her peers diss her
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My girl, she's at a crossroads,
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people praying for her
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Some are preying on her magazine ads,
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sex, drama, smoking marijuana
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Longing for a father to call her
'daughter'
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She's part of a generation longing
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for reconciliation
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And this future that they're facing and
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this poison that they're tasting
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My girl, I know this love
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that you're chasing
Verse 2
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My girl America's crying when she's
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lying on her bed at night
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I can see that she's screaming when
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she's dreaming for her freedom
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My girl America's dy ing while she's
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trying just to stop this fight
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Don't stop believing,
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my girl America
Verse 3
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Boys with hungry eyes have
been beating her door
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Telling her that's what's she's for,
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trying to rob her at her core
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Then leave calling her a whore,
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but still she knows there's more
I know she knows there's more because there's
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a voice she can't ig nore
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Cause it was founded in the foundations,
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from the day of her creation
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In God we trust engraved in the
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treasures of her nation
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And the void the boys
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can't fill
Em
With the tippin' of the bottle
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or the poppin' of the pill
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But still most of her friends
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don't care as they glare
Em
Ready to drown the funnel as they frown
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down the tunnel
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They stumble and they tumble,
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breaking down into rubble
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My girl America, stop, can't you see
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Am
It's not the circumstances that
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determine who you're gonna be
Em
But how you deal with these problems
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and pains that come your way
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It's for you that I pray with
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hope for a brighter day
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So I say, your deliverance is comin'
Verse 4
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My girl America's crying when she's
Em
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lying on her bed at night
Am
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I can see that she's screaming when
Em
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she's dreaming for her freedom
Am
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My girl America's dy ing while she's
Em
D
trying just to stop this fight
Am
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Don't stop believing,
Em
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my girl America
Verse 5
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Faith like a child from your first birth
C
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You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
Am
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And I see each tear and every scar
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The hands that have held
Em
you where you are
Am
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And I can see we've strayed so far
C
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A king born under that morning star
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As a crown of thorns
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was placed to erase
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Each tear that's touched your face
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His palms and sides were
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pierced with spears
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He hung in love just to draw you near
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My girl, out of this whole world
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Can't you see this is where we started
Verse 6
Am
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My girl America's crying when
Em
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she's lying on her bed at night
Am
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I can see that she's screaming when
Em
D
she's dreaming for her freedom
Am
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My girl America's dying while she's
Em
D
trying just to stop this fight
Am
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Don't stop believing,
Em
D
my girl America
Verse 7
Am
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My girl America's crying when
Em
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she's lying on her bed at night
Am
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I can see that she's screaming when she's
Em
D
dreaming for her freedom
Am
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My girl America's dy ing while she's
Em
D
trying just to stop this fight
Am
G
Em
Don't stop believing, my girl America
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His
Verse 8
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palms and sides were
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pierced with spears
Em
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He hung in love just to draw you near
Am
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My girl, out of this whole world
Em
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Can't you see this is where
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we started
Em
D
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Where we started, where we started,
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Em
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my girl America
Girl America
Mat Kearney
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