What Made America Famous chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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It was the town that made

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America famous

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The churches full and the

Verse 2

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kids all gone to hell

Verse 3

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Six traffic lights and seven cops

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and all the streets kept clean

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The supermarket and the drug

Verse 4

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store

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and the bars all doing well

Verse 5

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Now they were the folks that

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made America famous

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Our

Verse 6

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local fire department stocked

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with short haired volunteers

Verse 7

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And on Saturday night while America

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boozes the fire

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Department showed dirty movies, the

Verse 8

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lawyer and the grocer

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Seeing their dreams

Verse 9

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come

to life on the movie screens

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While the

Verse 10

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plumber hopes

that he won't be seen

Verse 11

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As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes

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away his tears

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But somethings burning somewhere

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Does anybody care?

Verse 12

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We were the kids that made America famous

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The

Verse 13

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kind of kids that long since drove

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our parents to despair

Verse 14

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We were lazy long hairs dropping our,

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lost confused, and copping out

Verse 15

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Convinced our futures were

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in doubt and trying not to care

Verse 16

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We lived in the house

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that made America famous

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It was a rundown slum, the

Verse 17

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shame of all the decent

Verse 18

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Folks in town, we hippies and

some welfare cases

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Crowded families of coal

Verse 19

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black faces,

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cramped inside

Verse 20

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Some cracked old boards,

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the best that we all could afford

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But still to nice for

Verse 21

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the rich

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landlord to tear it down

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And we could hear the sound

Verse 22

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something burning somewhere

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Is anybody

Verse 23

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there?

Verse 24

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We all lived the life that made

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America famous

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Our

Verse 25

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cops would make a point to shadow

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us around our town

Verse 26

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And we love children put a Swastika on

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the bright red firehouse door

Verse 27

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America, the beautiful,

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it makes a body proud

Verse 28

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And then came the night that

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made America famous

Verse 29

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Was it carelessness or someone's

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sick idea of a joke

Verse 30

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In the tinder box trap that we

Verse 31

hippies lived in

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Someone struck a spark at first

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I thought that I was dreaming

Verse 32

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Then I saw the first flames

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gleaming and heard

Verse 33

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The sound of children screaming

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coming through the smoke

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And somethings burning

Verse 34

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somewhere

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Does anybody

Verse 35

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care?

Verse 36

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Oh it was the fire that made America famous,

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the sirens wailed

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And the firemen stumbled

Verse 37

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sleepy from

Verse 38

their homes and the

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Plumber yelled, ?Come on let's go?,

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but they saw what was burning

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And said, ?Take it slow, let 'em

Verse 39

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sweat a little,

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they'll never know?

Verse 40

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And besides, we just cleaned the chrome,

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said the plumber

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?Then I'm going alone?

Verse 41

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Well he rolled on up in the fire

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truck and raised the

Verse 42

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Ladder to the ledge where me

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and my girl and a couple of kids

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Were clinging like bats to the

Verse 43

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edge,

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we staggered to salvation

Verse 44

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Collapsed on the street and I never

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thought that a fat man's face

Verse 45

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Would ever look so sweet

Verse 46

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I shook his hand in the scene

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that made America famous

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And a smile from the heart that

Verse 47

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made America great

Verse 48

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We spent the rest of that night in the

home of a man

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I'd never known before

Verse 49

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it's funny

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when you get that close

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It's kind of hard to

Verse 50

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hate

Verse 51

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I went to sleep with the hope

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that made America famous

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I had the

Verse 52

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kind of a dream that

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maybe they're still

Verse 53

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Trying to teach in school of the America

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that made America famous

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And of the

Verse 54

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people who just might

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understand that how together

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Yes we can cre

Verse 55

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ate a country

Verse 56

better than the one

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We have made of this land,

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we have a choice to make

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Each man who

Verse 57

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dares to dream

reaching out his hand

Verse 58

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A prophet or just a crazy god

damn dreamer of a fool

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Verse 59

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Yes a crazy fool

Verse 60

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And something burning somewhere

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Verse 61

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Does anybody care? Is

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anybody there?

Verse 62

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