Here in America chords by Derek Webb

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Saints and children,
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we've gathered here
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Just to hear this sacred story
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And I'm glad to bring it to you
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With my best rhyming and rhythm
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Cause I know that the thirsty listen
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And down do  the waters come
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And the Holy King of Israel
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loves me here in       America
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If you listen to my songs
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I hope you hear the water falling
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I hope you feel the oceans crashing
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on the coast of North New England
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I wish I could be there just to see him,
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two summers past I was
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And the holy king of history
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loves me here in America
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If I were a painter,
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I do not know which I'd paint
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The calling of the ancient stars,
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or the assembling of the saints
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There's just so much
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beauty around us,
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but just too wise to see
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So everywhere I go, I'm looking
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And once I went to Appalachia,
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for my father, he was born there and
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I saw the mountains waking
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with the innocence of children
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and my soul is still there with them,
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wrapped in the songs they brought,
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and the holy king of Israel
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loves me here in America.
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I've seen by the highways
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on a million exit ramps,
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With two -legged memorials
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to the laws of happenstance
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Waiting for four -wheeled messiahs
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to take them home again
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But I am home anywhere
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if you are where I am
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And if you listen to my songs
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I hope you hear the water falling
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I hope you feel the oceans crashing
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on the coast of North New England
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I wish I could be there just to see him
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Two summers past I was
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And the Holy King of Israel
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loves me here
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In America
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Oh, in America
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Oh