America Ukulele Chords

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Hey, hey what do you say?
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I come from a place called the U.S. of A.
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Ho, ho what do you know?
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Hop in my car and let's go.
 
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Well this is a song for America,
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Home of the red, white, and blue.
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Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
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Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
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And if you don't love her fuck you.
 
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Beloved by all from Tikrit to Beijing,
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If the world were a school we'd be homecoming king.
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Worshiped by France and by North Vietnam,
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Afghanistan thinks we're the bomb.
 
    A                  E
Oh, this is a song for America,
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Home of the red, white, and blue.
D                 A
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
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Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
D                   A
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
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And if you don't love her, fuck you.
 
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Our human rights record is something of note:
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We freed all our slaves and gave women the vote.
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Everyone's equal forever, always,
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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.
 
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To all war-torn nations, to those in turmoil,
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We'll help you kill despots, we'll help you drill oil,
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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,
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Crack cocaine, Abu Ghraib, and nicotine,
D              A
Swindling CEOs getting off clean,
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Housewives all hopped up on amphetamine,
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Nipples get rated NC-17,
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FEMA and levees and Hurricane Katrine
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George Bush's great rolling war machine.
  D              E              A
I think we're in trouble, don't you?
 
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It might seem I don't think our country's so great,
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But intolerance, bigotry, greed's what I hate.
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Most folks are honest and decent and true,
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Peaceful, compassionate, good through and through.
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That's what it means to be red, white, and blue,
    D            E             A
And if you don't think so fuck you,
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If you don't think so fuck you.
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