Ameriican Requiem chords by Beyoncé

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

G minorGm   G minorGm   G minorGm
Nothin' really ends
            C majorC             Fm5
For things to stay the same, they have to change again
G minorGm    G minorGm  G minorGm
Hello, my old friend
                      C majorC    G minorGm
You change your name, but not the ways you play pretend
G minorGm    G+G  F minorFm
American Requiem
   G minorGm G minorGm   F minorFm     G minorGm   G minorGm  F minorFm
Them big ideas (Yeah), are buried here (Yeah)
G minorGm G+G C majorC  G minorGm Gm
Amen

G minorGm Gmsus4

🎸 Chorus:
G minorGm               Gmsus4 Gmsus4
It's a lot of talkin' goin' on
G minorGm        G minorGm
While I sing my song
G minorGm
Can you hear me?
G minorGm             G minorGm
I said, "Do you hear me "

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
G minorGm         C minorCm
Looka there, looka there now
G minorGm            G minorGm
Looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Oh)
Gmsus4
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Yeah)

🎸 Chorus:
G minorGm              Gmsus4
It's a lotta chatter in here
G minorGm             Gmsus4
But let me make myself clear (Oh)
G minorGm       Gmsus4
Can you hear me? (Huh)
G minorGm         Gmsus4
Or Do you fear me? (Ow)

🎸 Verse 1:
    G minorGm     C minorCm
Can we stand for something?
G minorGm           G minorGm     Gmsus4
Now is the time to face the wind (Ow)
     G minorGm
Coming in peace and love, y'all
Gmsus4 G minorGm       Gmsus4
Oh, a lot of takin' up space
G minorGm          Gmsus4
Salty tears beyond my gaze
G minorGm
Can you stand me?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
Ooh, ah
Gmsus4
Can we stand?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?
Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
Can you stand with me?

🎸 Chorus:
    G minorGm    C minorCm
Can we stand for something?
G minorGm             G minorGm
Now is the time to face the wind
Now ain't the time to pretend
Now is the time to let love in

🎸 Bridge:
Thinkin' to myself (Thinkin' to myself)
Oh, it's a lot of talkin' goin' on (Oh)
While I sing my song (Yeah)
Do you hear me when I say?
G minorGm
Do you hear me when I say? Ah

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
G# minorG#m     C minorCm
Looka there, looka there
G minorGm
Looka, look
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
      G# minorG#m     C minorCm
Looka-looka there, looka there
G minorGm               G# minorG#m
L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-looka there
   C minorCm     G minorGm
Oh, looka there, looka there
Looka there, looka there
G minorGm         C minorCm        G minorGm
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)

🎸 Chorus:
G minorGm        F minorFm
Can we stand for something?
C minorCm     G minorGm        G minorGm        F minorFm        C minorCm
Now is the time to face the wind (Now is the time to face the wind)
       G minorGm     G minorGm  F minorFm
Now ain't the time to pretend
C minorCm     G minorGm        G minorGm       F minorFm
Now is the time to let love in (To let love in)
G minorGm
Together, can we stand?

🎸 Verse 2:
G minorGm
Looka there, looka in my hand
The grandbaby of a moonshine man
Gadsden, Alabama
         Gmsus4
Got folk down in Galveston, rooted in Louisiana
G minorGm
Used to say I spoke too country
G minorGm           G minorGm
And the rejection came, said I wasn't country 'nough
            G minorGm
Said I wouldn't saddle up, but
  G minorGm
If that ain't country, tell me what is?
Plant my bare feet on solid ground for years
                     Gm/Gm
They don't, don't know how hard I had to fight for this
    G minorGm
When I sang my song

🎸 Outro:
(When I sang the song of Abraham)
(When the angels guide and take my hand)
G minorGm
(Oh, no)
G minorGm
Goodbye to what has been
 G minorGm   G minorGm     C majorC    F minorFm
A augmentedA pretty house that we never settled in
G minorGm
A augmentedA funeral for fair-weather friends
 G minorGm   G minorGm   C majorC        G minorGm    F minorFm
I A minorAm the one to cleanse me of my Father's sins
G minorGm    G+G   F minorFm
American Requiem
   G minorGm  G minorGm  F minorFm FF   G minorGm   G minorGm  F minorFm
Them big ideas (Yeah) are buried here (Yeah)
G minorGm Gm C majorC  G minorGm G minorGm
Amen

Ameriican Requiem chords

“Ameriican Requiem” is a song by Beyoncé from her album ‘Cowboy Carter’, produced by Beyoncé, Jon Batiste & 4 more. The song lyrically explores Beyoncé’s space in the country genre and themes of change, pretense, remembrance and playing the victim card.