America Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]Be[Gsus4][G][Gsus4][G][Gsus4][G][Gsus4]
[G]side the gutter in a Bangkok [Gsus4]street
[G]Sits a naked [Gsus4]child,
[G]grateful for something to [F]eat[C]
From Amer[G]ica[Gsus4][G]
She licks her fingers and
she wipes her face
She stares in silence
and dreams of a distant [F]place[C]
Called [G]America, [C]Ame[G]rica,
[C]sym[F]bol of hope and go[C]odwi[G]ll.[C][G]
[C]Is it [F]only a vision she [C]sees,
or are [G]you for [C]real?[G]
Across the ocean in a Baghdad crowd
Stands an angry boy shouting
a curse out [F]loud[C]
At America
[G]His [C]eye[G]s are burning
with a fiery hate
He's so determined that
death be the certain fate
[F]of that sta[C]te called Ame[G]rica.
Amer[F]ica,
land of the strong and the [G]free.
When you [F]look in his eyes,
tell me [C]what will your answer [G]be?[C][G][C]
[G]Outside the city, on a Haitian beach
They come by thousands,
hoping somehow to [F]reach [C]America[G]
The dark sea churns
beneath the morning heat
As one by one they board
their freedom [F]fleet
And sail [C]to meet [G]America
[F]America, keeper of liberty'[G]s flame
When they [F]land on your shore
Will [C]you really be glad that they
[G]came?[F][C][G]
[F][C][G]
Back in Ohio, in a Sunday school
[C]A c[G]lass of children are[C]
[G]reading the [F]Golden[C]
In Amer[G]ica, [C]they [G]eat[C] th[G]eir cookies
and they laugh and play
[C]Just [G]before they lea[C]ve,[G]
they

[Verse 2]
their heads [F]to [C]pray
For America
[G][C][G][C][G]

[Verse 3]
[C]For [G]Ame[C]ric[G]a[C]
[G][C][G][C][G]

[Verse 4]
For America
[Gsus4][G]
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