Rich Mullins – Here In America (Guitar)

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[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