'Merican chords by
Descendents 
Key: A minor•
Verse 1
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We flipped our finger to
the king of england
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C
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Stole our country from the indi ans
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Dm
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With god on our side and
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C
Am
guns in our hands
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We took it for our own
Verse 2
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A na tion dedicated to liber ty
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Justice and equal ity
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Doesn't look that way to you
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It doesn't look that way to me
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The sickest joke I know
Verse 3
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[Chor us]
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Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
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C
Am
Just another stupid amer ic an
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You don't want to listen
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You don't want to under stand
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So finish up your drink and go home
Verse 4
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I come from the land of Ben Frank lin
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Twain and Poe and Walt Whit man
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Ot is Redding, Elling ton,
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The country that I love
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But it's a land
Verse 5
of the slaves and
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the ku klux klan
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Haymarket riot and the
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great de pres sion
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Joe Mc Carthy, Vietnam
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The sickest joke I know
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Verse 6
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[Chor us]
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I'm
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proud and ashamed
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Every fourth of July
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You got to know the truth
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Before you say that you got pride
Interlude 1
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Em
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Now the cops
Verse 7
Am
got tanks 'cause
the kids got guns
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Shrinks pushin' pills on
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A5
every one
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Cancer from the ocean,
cancer from the sun
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Straight to Hell we go
Outro 1
[Chorus: x2]
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Em
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G C Em Dm...
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