American Dreamer chords by Brooks & Dunn

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
D MajorD   A augmentedA   D MajorD   A augmentedA   D MajorD   A augmentedA   D MajorD   A augmentedA

Verse 1:
     G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
I know a woman
   G+G    D MajorD      A augmentedA
Her husband died and he left her
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With two little children
    D MajorD
So she went back to school
     A augmentedA        G+G    D MajorD
And she got a degree in business
       E minorEm    D MajorD
Yeah, now she owns one
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And she taught those kids
    D MajorD
You can do anything
     E minorEm        G+G
With the heart of a true believer
 A augmentedA   N.C.
Yeah, she's an American dreamer

BREAK:
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA

Verse 2:
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And I've got a woman
     G+G    D MajorD       A augmentedA
And she waits for me with the light on
            G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
Because she knows I'm coming
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And she talks about babies
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And building a house in the country
          E minorEm  D MajorD
Yeah, where it's sunny
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And she's got faith that can do anything
      E minorEm       G+G
But she'll never know how much I need her
 A augmentedA   N.C.
Yeah, she's an American Dreamer

BREAK:
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA

Bridge:
 G+G             D MajorD
Back in the sixties, Merle Haggard's in prison
   E minorEm            D MajorD
He's thinking about writing a tune
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And a guy named Armstrong was crazy enough
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To think he could walk on the moon
    B minorBm              A augmentedA
And a preacher named King, well he had him a dream
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He believed we could all live as one
    E minorEm          D MajorD
And a soldier somewhere is praying for peace
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While he's cleaning his gun
     G+G    D MajorD A augmentedA
American dreamers

Instrumental:
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  A augmentedA   D MajorD
G+G   D MajorD   E minorEm   D MajorD   G+G   D MajorD   A augmentedA

Verse 3:
 N.C.    G+G   D MajorD A augmentedA
And I had a father;
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He said son if something ain't real
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Then you don't even bother
    D MajorD
And he wasn't a saint
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But, I'd swear the man walked on water
       E minorEm     D MajorD
Yeah and he taught me
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I ain't just a long-legged hell-raising
     E minorEm            G+G
Son of a pipe-lining, honky-tonk singer
 A augmentedA   N.C.         G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
Yeah, I'm an American dreamer
G+G     D MajorD     A augmentedA              G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
(Dream as big as you want to) I'm an American dreamer
G+G       D MajorD       A augmentedA                G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
(There ain't nothing that you can't do) I'm an American dreamer

G+G     D MajorD     A augmentedA              G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
(Dream as big as you want to)I'm an American dreamer

Outro:
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA
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