Ezra Furman – In America (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

[Verse 1]
G                  A7sus4
  We were born in America

Am                   C
   Twenty years in a torn up America

G                 A7sus4       Am     C
  And it's not so terrible in America
[Verse 2]
G                      A7sus4
  And if you go to the movies

Am                         C
   Don’t believe what they show at the movies

G                      A7sus4     Am       C
  The whole world's in 3D, it's incredible
[Bridge]
Am                       Em
   And if you pay me the ransom

Bm                    D
   I will write you a national anthem

Am                            Em
   Against the wall with your hands up

Bm                    D
   Don’t try anything funny
[Verse 3]
G               A7sus4
Mexican on your dad's side

Am                  C
   Every town has a good and a bad side

G                          A7sus4       Am     C
  And you were born on the sad side of America
[Verse 4]
G                       A7sus4
  And I don't have to defend it

 Am                          C
I don't give a shit what Ben Franklin intended

G                       A7sus4
  What some slave owner men said

              Am       C
Well, they're all dead
[Verse 5]
G                      A7sus4
  But there's too many rock songs

Am                 C
   Put it all in a two minute pop song

G                    A7sus4          Am   C
  A really mean it a lot song for America
[Verse 6]
G               A7sus4
  All alone in America

Am                 C
   I wanna go back home in America

G                      A7sus4
  Clean me out like an enema

      Am     C
Miss America
[Verse 7]
G                   A7sus4
  We were born for America

Am                      C
   For the highways and court of America

G                     A7sus4
  How you're not even dead yet

          Am      C
When they bury ya
[Outro] G A7sus4 Am C G A7sus4 Am C G A7sus4 Am C G A7sus4 Am C