We Americans chords by
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Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I grew up with reverence
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for the red white and blue
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Spoke of God and liberty recit
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ing the Pledge of allegiance
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Learned love of country
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from my own family
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Some shivered and prayed approach
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ing the beaches of Normandy
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The flag waves high and that's
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how it should be
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So many lives given and taken
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in the name of freedom
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But the story's complicated
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and hard to read
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Pages of the book obscured
or torn out completely
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Verse 2
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I am a son of Uncle Sam
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And I struggle to understand
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The good and evil
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But I'm doing the best I can
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In a place built on stolen land
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With stolen people
Verse 3
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Blood in the soil with the cot
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ton and tobacco
Blood in the soil with the cot
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ton and tobacco
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Blood in the soil with the cot
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ton and tobacco
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Verse 4
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A misnamed people
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and a kidnapped race
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Laws may change but we can't
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erase the scares of a nation
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Of children devalued and disavowed
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Displaced by greed and the arrog
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ance of manifest destiny
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Short- sighted to say
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it was a long time ago
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Not even two life times have passed
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since the days of Lincoln
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The sins of Andrew Jackson,
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the shame of Jim Crow
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And time moves slow when the tra
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gedies are beyond description
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Verse 5
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I am a son of Uncle Sam
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And I struggle to understand
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The good and evil
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But I'm doing the best I can
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In a place built on stolen land
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With stolen people
Verse 6
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We are more than the sum of our parts
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All these broken homes
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and broken hearts
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God, will you keep us wherever we go?
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Will you forgive us for
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where we've been?
We Americans
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Verse 7
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Blood on the table with the cof
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fee and the sugar
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fee and the sugar
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Blood on the table with the cof
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fee and the sugar, mm
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Verse 8
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I've been to every state and
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seen shore to shore
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The still open wounds of the Civil War
Watched blind hatred
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bounce back and forth
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Seen vile prejudice both in
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the south and the north
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And ac countability is hard to impose
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On ghosts of ancestors haunting
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the halls of our conscience
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But the path of grace and
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good will is still here
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For those of us who may be con
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sidered among the living
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Verse 9
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I am a son of God and man
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And I may never understand
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The good and evil
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But I dearly love this land
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Because of and in spite
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Of we the people
Verse 10
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We are more than the sum of our parts
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All these broken bones
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and broken hearts
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God, will you keep us wherever we go?
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C
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Can you forgive us for
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where we've been?
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We Americans
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Mm
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We Americans
Verse 11
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Love in our hearts with the
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pain and the memory
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Love in our hearts with the pain
and the memory
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Love in our hearts with the pain
and the memory
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Love
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Love in our hearts with the pain
and the memory
Love in our hearts with the
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pain and the memory
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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Verse 12
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Love in our hearts with the pain
and the memory
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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and the memory
Love
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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Love in our hearts with the pain
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and the memory, mm

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