Jackson Browne – For America (Guitar)

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Dm
As if i really didnt understand

 Bb
That i was just another part of their plan 

     C
I went off looking for the promise

Dm
Believing in the Motherland

Dm
And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed

Bb
And the safety of my own head

C
I went on speaking of the future

Dm
While other people fought and bled 

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The kid I was when I first left home

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Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own

F                                             Bb
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet

F                                Bb     C
When the truth was known

C
I have prayed for America

Am
I was made for America

Bb
It's in my blood and in my bones

                        Bb - C
By the dawn's early light

                        Bb - C
By all I know is right

                                     Bb - C
We're going to reap what we have sown

Dm
As if freedom was a question of might

Bb
As if loyalty was black and white

C
You hear people say it all the time-

Dm
"My country wrong or right"

Dm
I want to know what that's got to do

Bb
With what it takes to find out what's true

C
With everyone from the President on down

Dm
Trying to keep it from you

F                                Bb
The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms

F                                Bb
Who send their sons to the Vietnams

F                                Bb
Will they really think their way of life

F                                Bb       C
Has been protected as the next war comes?

C
I have prayed for America

Am
I was made for America

Bb
Her shining dream plays in my mind

                        Bb - C
By the rockets red glare

                        Bb - C
A generation's blank stare

                        Bb - C
We better wake her up this time

F                                Bb
The kid I was when I first left home

F                                Bb
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own

F                                Bb
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet

F                                Bb        C
When the truth was known

C
I have prayed for America

Am
I was made for America

Bb
I can't let go till she comes around

                        Bb - C
Until the land of the free

                        Bb - C
Is awake and can see

                        Bb - C
And until her conscience has been found