This Country chords by Daniel Lemma

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Intro 1

I'm gonna die

Verse 1
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in this country
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I'm  (E minor) gonna sleep  (D major) in a foreign soil
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No  (E minor) more  (C major) the heroes or the  (E minor) melodies
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that stir  (C major) my blood in a boil
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 (D major) I'm gonna die in  (C major) this
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country  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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Well,  (G major) my chil (C major) dren,
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my children are coming  (E minor) up
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Can  (C major) I give them but this?  (E minor) 
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 (G major) In a  (C major) one -room apartment,
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in a  (E minor) land of dreams
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We must  (C major) know I've done my best
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 (E minor) Try to  (D major) live in this country  (E minor) 
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Try to  (D major) go in foreign soil
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No  (E minor) more  (C major) the hills or the  (E minor) melodies
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Stir  (C major) my blood in  (D major) the boil
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Try to  (C major) live in this country  (E minor)  (D major)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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I come  (G major) home  (C major) in the morning,
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send my  (E minor) kids to school
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We  (D major) joke  (C major) about daddy's tired eyes
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 (E minor) And  (G major) I  (C major) sleep till noon,
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then it's  (E minor) all forgiven
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Somehow  (C major) my life seems to pass me by
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 (E minor) Yeah,  (G major) it's passing me  (C major) by
and meanwhile
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 (E minor) Though my mind  (C major) is off on a run  (E minor) 
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Though it  (C major) seems the only quality  (E minor) time
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Are those mo (C major) ments I spend on my own
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 (E minor) They come back (C major) ,
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those songs we used  (G major) to sing
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And the  (C major) faces, come  (D major) alive  (G major) 
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And I  (C major) feel as light as a feather (G major) 
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And at least  (C major) for a little while
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I  (G major) forget about  (D major) this country,
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 (E minor) I   forget  (D major) about the foreign soil  (E minor) 
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And I'm back  (C major) where the
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hills and the  (E minor) melodies
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stir  (C major) my blood in a boil
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 (D major) I forget about this  (C major) country  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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Now I know  (C major) that a dream
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is a heavy  (E minor) loader
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Many shoulder (C major) s will not be  (E minor) enough
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But  (C major) sometimes a man just can (E minor) 't  wear it
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And a  (C major) promise start to look like a bluff  (E minor) 
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But  (G major) I  think  (C major) I'm carrying my children
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 (E minor) And I think  (C major) I  can make another mile
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 (E minor) And  (C major) all them things
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that could have been differ (E minor) ent
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Well  (C major) you can't explain them to  (E minor) a   child
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So you live  (D major) in this country  (E minor) 
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So you sleep  (D major) in the fallen soil  (E minor) 
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You forget  (C major) about the hills and the melodies  (E minor) 
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You stir  (C major) your blood in  (D major) a  boil
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So you live  (C major) in this country  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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So you  (G major) live  (C major) in this country
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Still  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) them spir (C major) it
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voices are  (E minor) calling me  (C major)  (E minor) 
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Still them  (C major) spirit voices are
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 (E minor) calling me  (C major)  (E minor) 
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