Ameriican Requiem chords by Beyoncé

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

🎸 Intro:

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

Gm Gmsus4

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

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
Gm                 Cm
Looka there, looka there now
Gm                        Gm
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:
Gm                            Gmsus4
It's a lotta chatter in here
Gm                         Gmsus4
But let me make myself clear (Oh)
Gm              Gmsus4
Can you hear me? (Huh)
Gm                 Gmsus4
Or Do you fear me? (Ow)

🎸 Verse 1:
       Gm         Cm
Can we stand for something?
Gm                     Gm         Gmsus4
Now is the time to face the wind (Ow)
          Gm
Coming in peace and love, y'all
Gmsus4  Gm              Gmsus4
Oh, a lot of takin' up space
Gm                    Gmsus4
Salty tears beyond my gaze
Gm
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:
        Gm       Cm
Can we stand for something?
Gm                          Gm
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?
Gm
Do you hear me when I say? Ah

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
G#m          Cm
Looka there, looka there
Gm
Looka, look
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
            G#m          Cm
Looka-looka there, looka there
Gm                             G#m
L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-looka there
      Cm          Gm
Oh, looka there, looka there
Looka there, looka there
Gm                 Cm                Gm
(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:
Gm               Fm
Can we stand for something?
Cm         Gm               Gm               Fm               Cm
Now is the time to face the wind (Now is the time to face the wind)
              Gm         Gm    Fm
Now ain't the time to pretend
Cm         Gm                Gm             Fm
Now is the time to let love in (To let love in)
Gm
Together, can we stand?

🎸 Verse 2:
Gm
Looka there, looka in my hand
The grandbaby of a moonshine man
Gadsden, Alabama
                 Gmsus4
Got folk down in Galveston, rooted in Louisiana
Gm
Used to say I spoke too country
Gm                      Gm
And the rejection came, said I wasn't country 'nough
                       Gm
Said I wouldn't saddle up, but
   Gm
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
       Gm
When I sang my song

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