Hayes Carll – American Dream (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

Track 6 - What it Is (2019) --------------------------------------------------------- What I'm calling an F# 'chord' is just a transition between the G and Em:
    G   F#  Em
e|--3------------|
B|--3------------|
G|---------------|
D|----------2----|
A|--2---0---2----|
E|--3---2--------|
[Intro] G Em C G (2x) [Verse 1]
G         Em     C             G
I lit the fire, poured out the bottle

G         Em        C                  D
Asked the moonlight what it might have seen

Em     Bm       C          D
If it answered, I can't remember

       G    F# Em D   C        G
I fell down in to the American Dream
[Verse 2]
G         Em  C              G
Been too long in the Devil's workshop

G                  Em          C             D
So I'm driving the backbone to change the scenery

Em            Bm       C          D
Here come the horses through purgatory

          G    F# Em  D   C        G
They fell down in to the American Dream
[Chorus]
D                     C        G
Summer time sunshine, shine on me

C       G         D
Show me where I'm going
[Verse 3]
G            Em         C       G
I'll find an old friend in El Dorado

G               Em           C         D
Like Harry Dean Stanton on a drive-in screen

Em           Bm      C              D
A tumbleweed blowing through Paris, Texas

        G    F# Em D    C       G
He fell down in to the American Dream
[Instrumental] G F# Em D C (x4) [Verse 4]
G            Em      C              G
Sun-bleached dresses wavin' from a clothesline

G             Em               C               D
Come Saturday evening, they'll have a place to be

Em             Bm         C           D
I'll pick some flowers to take to her Mama

       G    F# Em D    C       G
I fell down in to the American Dream
[Chorus]
D                     C        G
Summer time sunshine, shine on me

          C       G         D
Won't you show me where I'm goin'?

D                         C     G
Leaving San Francisco for New Orleans

      C          G       D
I can hear that rooster crowin'
[Verse 4]
G         Em     C             G
Spit and polish the ancient story

G         Em     C       D
Love and glory, gold and greed

Em      Bm       C          D
Nothing changes, even if it wants to

       G   F# Em D    C       G
We go down in to the American Dream
[Outro] G F# Em D C (x4)
G    F# Em D   C
We go down..........baby

G    F# Em D   C
On down to       New Orleans

G    F# Em D   C
Down................baby

G    F# Em D   C
Only finding what it means
G F# Em D C (6x)