American Family Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D]

[Verse 1]
[D]Worked all his life in the rail [Bm]yards
[G]Summer heat, winter [D]cold
He sits by the fire
[Bm]Now he's retired
But he [G]don't really feel all that [A]old
[G]She comes in from the kitchen,
[D]sits o[Bm]n the arm of[A] his chair[G].
He looks up and says,
hey [D]lady, I love you.
Runs his [Bm]fingers [A]through her [D]hair.
There's a [G]picture on the wall
of Jesus [A]in the [D]garden
It's been there since they
got the [Bm]house in [A]53
[G]Hey, they ain't no big [D]deal
Ain't gonna [G]go down in [A]history
[D]Just a [A]little [Bm]story of [G]an
[D]American fam[A]ily[D]
She waited for him in [Bm]World War II
He [G]fought the European cam[D]paign
[Dsus4]Their son[D], John,
spent [Bm]two years in Narnia,
[G]that war wasn't the [A]same
[G]Billy's had an Ellie, he's a [D]lawyer,
they [Bm]worry he's [A]so far [G]away
Jeannie got married and
[D]lives here in town,
they're coming [Bm]over with
the [A]kids [D]today
There's a [G]picture on the wall
of Jesus [A]in [D]the garden
It's been there since they
[A]got the [Bm]house in [D]53[A]
[G]And it ain't no big [D]deal
Ain't gonna [G]go down in [A]history
[D]Just a [A]little [Bm]story [G]of an
[D]American [A]fam[D]ily
[A]But [Bm]the whole world
is [F#m]different now
[G]Blood's been spilled on our [D]shores
[A]In [Bm]hard times we pull
togeth[F#m]er
[G]That's what a family's [A]for
[G]But hey, it ain't no big [D]deal
It's [G]written in our [A]history
[D]We're all [A]part of the [Bm]story
[G]Of an [D]American fam[A]ily[D]
We're all [A]part of [Bm]the story
[G]of an [D]American fam[A]ily
[D]