In A Big Country chords by American Authors

Intro:

             E
(Shot! Shot!)

Verse 1:

E                             A
I've never seen you look like this without a reason

E                       A
Another promise fallen through

        F#m    A      B
Another season passes by you

Hook:

B A       F#m
   (Shot!)

Verse 2:

E                       A
I never took the smile away from anybody's face

E                             A
And that's a desperate way to look

            F#m     A      B
For someone who is still a child

Chorus:

C#m      E           A       B
And in a big country dreams stay with you

C#m    E                                   A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside

      F#m E F#m
Stay alive

Verse 3:

E                                   A
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered

                   C#m       F#m                       E
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

Solo:
E A E

Verse 4:

E                         A
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert

E
But I can live and breathe

    A       F#m    A     B
And see the sun in wintertime

Chorus:

C#m      E           A       B
And in a big country dreams stay with you

C#m    E             C#m       E           A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside

      F#m
Stay alive

C#m  E           A       B
In a big country dreams stay with you

C#m    E                                   A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside

      F#
Stay alive

Instrumental:
E A C#m F#m

Bridge:

E                             A
So take that look out of here it doesn't fit you

C#m                           F#m
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded

E                                A
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming

C#m                        F#m
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted

E                                   A
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered

        C#m                  F#m                       E
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

Hook:

E A       E
   (Shot!)

Final Verse:

E                         A
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert

E
But I can live and breathe

    A       F#m    F#    B
And see the sun in wintertime

Chorus:

C#m      E           A       B
And in a big country dreams stay with you

C#m    E             C#m       E           A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside

      F#m
Stay alive

C#m  E           A       B
In a big country dreams stay with you

C#m    E                                   A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside

      F#m
Stay alive