Rich Mullins – Here In America (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
D Bm D G D F#7 Bm G D A Bm F#7 Bm D G A D
[Verse]
D Bm G D Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story F# Bm G D And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm A Bm F#7 Bm Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come D G A D And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
[Instrumental]
D G D Em7 D G D A D
D Bm G D And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling F# Bm G D I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England A Bm F#7 Bm I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was D G A D And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America Em7 A D G And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint Em7 A D The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints Em7 A C G And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see Em7 F#m7 G A But everywhere I go I'm looking D Bm G D And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there F#7 Bm G D And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children A Bm F#7 Bm And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought D G A D And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America Em7 A D G And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps Em7 A D Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance Em7 A C G Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again Em F#m7 G A But I am home anywhere if You are where I am D Bm G D And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling F# Bm G D I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England A Bm F# Bm I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was D G A D And the Holy King of Israel loves me here ……..in America"
[Outro]
G D Em7 A D G D Em7 A D G D C A#A D