What Made America Famous chords by Harry Chapin

Chords with lyrics

What Made America Famous
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Harry Chapin

   E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e
   - - - - - -
G+G  3 2 0 0 0 3
C majorC   3 2 0 1 0
C/BC/B  2 2 0 1 0
A minorAm   0 2 2 1 0
D MajorD    0 2 3 2
C/GC/G 3 3 2 0 1 0
FF  1 3 3 2 1 1
Bb majorBb   1 3 3 3 1
A augmentedA   0 2 2 2 0
BB   2 4 4 4 2
N.C.

G+G                 C majorC   C/BC/B
It was the town that ...
  A minorAm           D MajorD        G+G                The churches full and the ...
G+G
Six traffic lights, ...
  C majorC            C majorC C/BC/B
And all the streets ...
A minorAm            D MajorD         C majorC       G+G
The supermarket and the drug ...

G+G                     C majorC   C/BC/B
Now they were the folks ...
  A minorAm       C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
Our local fire department stocked ...
G+G
And on Saturday night, ...
  C majorC              C majorC   C/BC/B
The fire department ...
  A minorAm           C/BC/B  A minorAm  C/GC/G           A minorAm     C/GC/G
The lawyer and the grocer seein' their ....
FF                D MajorD          C majorC
While the plumber hopes that he ...
           G+G
And he wipes ...

  Bb majorBb         A augmentedA
But somethin's ...
   BB    G+G
DOES ANYBODY ...

G+G                 C majorC   C/BC/B
We were the kids that ....
  A minorAm                   D MajorD     G+G
The kind of kids that long since ....
G+G
We were lazy long-...
C majorC              C majorC  C/BC/B
Lost, confused, ..
A minorAm          D MajorD
Convinced our ...
C majorC         G+G
And tryin' not ...

G+G                    C majorC   C/BC/B
We lived in the house ....
     A minorAm         C majorC        D MajorD        G+G
It was a run-down slum, the ...
G+G
We're hippies and some ...
C majorC          C majorC      C/BC/B
Crowded families of cold...
A minorAm              C/BC/B  A minorAm
Cramped inside ...
C/GC/G           A minorAm   C/GC/G
The best ....
FF             D MajorD           C majorC
But still too fine for the ...
G+G
And we could hear ...

  Bb majorBb        A augmentedA
Of somethin' ...
  BB    G+G
IS ANYBODY THERE?

G+G                    C majorC   C/BC/B
We all lived the life ...
  A minorAm                D MajorD       G+G
Our cops would make a point ...
G+G                     C majorC          C majorC  C/BC/B
And we love children put a ...
A minorAm      D MajorD       C majorC      G+G
America, the beautiful....

G+G                     C majorC   C/BC/B
And then came the night ...
    A minorAm       C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
Was it carelessness or ...
    G+G                  C majorC        C majorC   C/BC/B
In the tinder-box trap ....
  A minorAm             C/BC/B  A minorAm
At first I thought ...
C/GC/G             A minorAm  C/GC/G
Then I saw the ...
FF           D MajorD
And heard the sound of ...
C majorC         G+G
Comin' through ...

  Bb majorBb         A augmentedA
And somethin's ....
   BB    G+G
DOES ANYBODY ...

G+G                   C majorC   C/BC/B
Oh, it was the fire ...
  A minorAm                   D MajorD          G+G
The sirens wailed and the ....
G+G
And when the plumber ....
C majorC                   C majorC   C/BC/B
They saw what was burn....
A minorAm
"Let 'em ...
D MajorD
"They'll ....
C majorC
"And besides, we ....
N.C.               G+G
Said the ...

G+G
Well he rolled on up ...
A minorAm
And raised the ladder ...
   C majorC          C/BC/B         A minorAm            D MajorD
While me and my girl and a ....
G+G
We staggered to s...
C majorC           C majorC C/BC/B
Collapsed ...
  A minorAm           D MajorD
And I never thought ...
   C majorC      G+G
Would ever look so ...

G+G                        C majorC   C/BC/B
I shook his hand in the ...
    A minorAm             D MajorD      G+G
And he smiled from the ...
       G+G                        C majorC        C majorC  C/BC/B
We spent the rest of that ....
   A minorAm       D MajorD          C majorC        G+G
It's funny; when you get ......

G+G                        C majorC   C/BC/B
I went to sleep with the hope ....
     A minorAm          C majorC          D MajorD         G+G
I had the kind of a dream that .....
G+G                 C majorC   C/BC/B
O' the America that made ....
A minorAm                C/BC/B  A minorAm
And of the people who ...
C/GC/G        A minorAm   C/GC/G
That how together, ....
FF
Create a country ...
D MajorD
The one we have ...
FF
We have the ...
FF
To make ...
D MajorD
Who dares ...
D MajorD
Reachin' out ....
C majorC                      G+G
A augmentedA prophet or just a ...
    C majorC   G+G
Yes, a crazy f...

  Bb majorBb         A augmentedA
and somethin's burnin' ...
BB      G+G
DOES ANYBODY ...
      G+G
IS ANYBODY ...
      G+G
IS ANYBODY ...
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