America

	  		
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In America you’re born with a silver spoon 
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Or in the back of the bus by the light of the moon 
Em                         C 
And when you die they say “It’ll all be changing soon 
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And you’ll be free, you’ll be free, you’ll be free” 

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It was two hundred years of war that lit that freedom torch 
G                                       D 
Went from Southhampton fields up to the White House porch 
                    Em                        C 
And they’re still shooting all the kids for trying to break that yoke 
              G 
How can you breathe? 
              D 
How can you breathe? 
              G 
How can you breathe? 
             G                       C 
They gave a fortune away to some Wall Street bank 
          G                     D 
Like a treasure was sunk on a ship already sank 
                    Em 
And they’re still standing on the deck 
                     C 
Trying to get us to walk the plank 
                       G            D           G 
While they’re lost at sea, lost at sea, lost at sea 

            G                          C 
But I ain't never had more than ten dollars to my name 
             G                        D 
And I’ve been told my whole life, “Boy you got to hide your shame” 
           Em                      C 
For being born like a match set afire by the flame 
                  G                 D                G 
But I will burn free, I will burn free, I will burn free 

         G                        C 
When I look all around me, I wonder where they’ve gone 
         G                               D 
All the people that I loved reduced to memories in a song 
           Em 
I can hear them trying to remind me 
           C 
Just remember right from wrong 
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Because we fought for thee, we fought for thee, we fought for thee 
        

            G                              C 
But I see hatred in the eyes of all these people running scared 
            G                        D 
Like the world’s been taken by someone who finally dared 
          Em          
To just stand up and say we’re staying 
           C 
We’re not going anywhere 
                G                 D                G 
And we will be free, we will be free, we will be free 

      G                         C 
In America you’re born with a silver spoon 
           G                       D 
Or in the back of the bus by the light of the moon 
              Em                   C 
And when you die they say, “It’ll all be changing soon 
               G              D                 G 
And you’ll be free, you’ll be free, you’ll be free” 

      G                     
So I wonder which was the lie 
      C     
The past in it’s glory  
      G 
or the promise of a future  
      D 
you and I may never see 
        Em                                     C 
‘Cause the reasons I've been given sound like bullshit to me 
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We’ll wait and see, wait and see, wait and see 

       G                            C 
Now America, I know I’m not your favorite son 
             G                  D 
But I did my time and I’m not hurting anyone 
            Em                   C 
I’m just tired of living at the point of a gun 
               G 
When will you see? 
               D 
When will you see? 
               G 
When will you see? 
                     Em 
When you say we’re free 
C 
N.C.                
You don’t mean me 
N.C.                
You don’t mean me