Beyoncé – Ameriican Requiem (Guitar)

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If you have the chance, the song sounds better when A4 is tuned to 452Hz, instead of 440. [Intro]
Eb      Ab     Eb
Nothin' really ends

                       F                          Bb5
For things to stay the same, they have to change again

Eb        Ab   Eb
Hello, my old friend

                                           F        Ab
You change your name, but not the ways you play pretend

Ab       G    Cm
American Requiem

     Ab  Eb     Bb         Ab     Eb    Bb
Them big ideas (Yeah), are buried here (Yeah)

Ab G F   Ab Eb
Amen
Eb Absus4 [Chorus]
Eb                             Ebsus4 Absus4
It's a lot of talkin' goin' on

Eb               Ab
While I sing my song

Eb
Can you hear me?

Eb                         Ab
I said, "Do you hear me?"
[Pre-Chorus]
Eb                 Gb
Looka there, looka there now

Ab                        Eb
Looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there Looka-looka, looka there, looka there Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Oh)
Absus4
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Yeah)
[Chorus]
Eb                            Absus4
It's a lotta chatter in here

Eb                         Absus4
But let me make myself clear (Oh)

Eb              Ebsus4
Can you hear me? (Huh)

Eb                 Ebsus4
Or do you fear me? (Ow)
[Verse 1]
       Eb         Gb
Can we stand for something?

Ab                     Eb         Ebsus4
Now is the time to face the wind (Ow)

          Eb
Coming in peace and love, y'all

Absus4  Eb              Ebsus4
Oh, a lot of takin' up space

Eb                    Ebsus4
Salty tears beyond my gaze

Eb
Can you stand me?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?) Ooh, ah
Ebsus4
Can we stand?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?) Can you stand with me? [Chorus]
        Eb       Gb
Can we stand for something?

Ab                          Eb
Now is the time to face the wind
Now ain't the time to pretend Now is the time to let love in [Bridge] Thinkin' to myself (Thinkin' to myself) Oh, it's a lot of talkin' goin' on (Oh) While I sing my song (Yeah) Do you hear me when I say?
Ab
Do you hear me when I say? Ah
[Pre-Chorus]
Ebm          Gb
Looka there, looka there

Ab
Looka, look
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
            Ebm          Gb
Looka-looka there, looka there

Ab                             Ebm
L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-looka there

      Gb          Ab
Oh, looka there, looka there
Looka there, looka there
Eb                 Gb                Ab
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?)
L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L (Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?) [Chorus]
Eb               Db
Can we stand for something?

Gb         Ab               Eb               Db               Gb
Now is the time to face the wind (Now is the time to face the wind)

              Ab         Eb    Db
Now ain't the time to pretend

Gb         Ab                Eb             Db
Now is the time to let love in (To let love in)

Ab
Together, can we stand?
[Verse 2]
Eb
Looka there, looka in my hand
The grandbaby of a moonshine man Gadsden, Alabama
                 Absus4
Got folk down in Galveston, rooted in Louisiana

Eb
Used to say I spoke too country

Ab                      Eb
And the rejection came, said I wasn't country 'nough

                       Ab
Said I wouldn't saddle up, but

   Eb
If that ain't country, tell me what is?
Plant my bare feet on solid ground for years
                                         Ab/Eb
They don't, don't know how hard I had to fight for this

       Eb
When I sang my song
[Outro] (When I sang the song of Abraham) (When the angels guide and take my hand)
Ab
(Oh, no)

Eb      Ab          Eb
Goodbye to what has been

  Ab     Eb         F        Ab      Bb
A pretty house that we never settled in

Eb            Ab           Eb
A funeral for fair-weather friends

  Ab     Eb      F               Ab       Bb
I am the one to cleanse me of my Father's sins

Ab       G     Cm
American Requiem

     Ab   Eb    Bb  Cm     Ab     Eb    Bb  Cm
Them big ideas (Yeah) are buried here (Yeah)

Ab Eb F    Ab  Eb
Amen