Key: G major
Verse 1
G
Em
D
F
G
There's a star
-spangled banner
C
waving somewhere
D
F
In a distant land so many miles away
G
D
G
Only Uncle Sam's great heroes
C
get to go there,
D
Where I wish that I could
G
also live some day.
D
I'd see Lincoln, Custer,
G
Washington and Perry,
D
G
Nathan Hale and Colin Kelly too.
There's a star -spangled banner
C
waving somewhere,
G
D
Waving o 'er the land of heroes
G
D
G
C
E
brave and true.
C
D
G
In this war with its mad
C
schemes of destruction
G
Of a country fair and our sweet liberty
D
G
By the mad dictators,
C
leaders of corruption,
D
Can't the U .S. use
G
a mountain boy like me.
D
God gave me the right to
G
be a free American,
D
G
For that precious right I'd gladly die.
D
G
There's a star -spangled banner
C
waving somewhere,
D
That is where I want to live when I
G
D
G
C
E
C
die.
D
G
Though I realize I'm crippled,
C
that is true,
G
D
Please don't judge my courage
G
by my twisted leg.
D
G
Let me show my Uncle Sam
C
what I can do, sir.
D
G
Let me help to bring the axes down a peg.
D
If I do some great deed,
G
I will be a hero.
D
And a hero brave is what I
G
want to be.
There's a star -spangled banner
waving somewhere
C
G
D
G
In that heaven there should be a place for me
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