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Artist: Stephen Lynch
Song: America
Album: 3 Balloons
Transcribed by: David Podradchik
Note: For personal use/scholarship only; this song is quite scholarly... satire,
that is. "And if you don't think so, fuck you."
Chords used:
D A E F#m Asus4
e----2-------0-------0-------2-------0--------|
B----3-------2-------0-------2-------3--------|
G----2-------2-------1-------2-------2--------|
D----0-------2-------2-------4-------2--------|
A------------0-------2-------4-------0--------|
E--------------------0-------2----------------|
D A E F#m
Hey, hey what do you say?
D A E F#m
I come from a place called the U.S. of A.
D A E F#m
Ho, ho what do you know?
D A E
Hop in my car and let's go.
A E
Well this is a song for America,
A E
Home of the red, white, and blue.
D A
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
D A
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
A E A
And if you don't love her fuck you.
D A E F#m
Beloved by all from Tikrit to Beijing,
D A E F#m
If the world were a school we'd be homecoming king.
D A E F#m
Worshiped by France and by North Vietnam,
D A E
Afghanistan thinks we're the bomb.
A E
Oh, this is a song for America,
A E
Home of the red, white, and blue.
D A
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
D A
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
D A
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
A E A
And if you don't love her, fuck you.
D A E F#m
Our human rights record is something of note:
D A E F#m
We freed all our slaves and gave women the vote.
D A E F#m
Everyone's equal forever, always,
D A E
Unless you're one of them gays.
A E
Oh, this is a song for America,
A E
Home of the red, white, and blue.
D A
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
D A
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
D A
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
D A
Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine,
A E A
And if you don't love her fuck you.
D A E F#m
To all war-torn nations, to those in turmoil,
D A E F#m
We'll help you kill despots, we'll help you drill oil,
D A E F#m
And if you don't want our help, that's ok
D A E
We're coming in anyway.
A E
Oh, this is a song for America,
A E
Home of the red, white, and blue.
D A
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
D A
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
D A
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
D A
Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine,
D A
Crack cocaine, Abu Ghraib, and nicotine,
D A
Swindling CEOs getting off clean,
D A
Housewives all hopped up on amphetamine,
D A
Nipples get rated NC-17,
D A
FEMA and levees and Hurricane Katrine
D F#m
George Bush's great rolling war machine.
D E A
I think we're in trouble, don't you?
D A E F#m
It might seem I don't think our country's so great,
D A E F#m
But intolerance, bigotry, greed's what I hate.
D A E F#m
Most folks are honest and decent and true,
D A E F#m
Peaceful, compassionate, good through and through.
D A E F#m
That's what it means to be red, white, and blue,
D E A
And if you don't think so fuck you,
D E A Asus4 A
If you don't think so fuck you.
