What Made America Famous chords by Harry Chapin

What Made America Famous
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Harry Chapin

     E A D G B e
     - - - - - -
G    3 2 0 0 0 3
C      3 2 0 1 0
C/B    2 2 0 1 0
Am     0 2 2 1 0
D        0 2 3 2
C/G  3 3 2 0 1 0
F    1 3 3 2 1 1
Bb     1 3 3 3 1
A      0 2 2 2 0
B      2 4 4 4 2
N.C.

G                                 C     C/B
It was the town that ...
    Am                     D                G                               The churches full and the ...
G
Six traffic lights, ...
    C                        C  C/B
And all the streets ...
Am                       D                  C              G
The supermarket and the drug ...

G                                         C      C/B
Now they were the folks ...
    Am              C                  D                  G
Our local fire department stocked ...
G
And on Saturday night, ...
    C                            C      C/B
The fire department ...
    Am                     C/B    Am   C/G                      Am         C/G
The lawyer and the grocer seein' their ....
F                               D                    C
While the plumber hopes that he ...
                      G
And he wipes ...

    Bb                  A
But somethin's ...
     B       G
DOES ANYBODY ...

G                                  C      C/B
We were the kids that ....
    Am                                     D          G
The kind of kids that long since ....
G
We were lazy long-...
C                           C   C/B
Lost, confused, ..
Am                    D
Convinced our ...
C                 G
And tryin' not ...

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

   Bb                A
Of somethin' ...
    B       G
IS ANYBODY THERE?

G                                       C      C/B
We all lived the life ...
    Am                                D             G
Our cops would make a point ...
G                                          C                    C    C/B
And we love children put a ...
Am           D             C            G
America, the beautiful....

G                                         C      C/B
And then came the night ...
       Am              C              D         G
Was it carelessness or ...
       G                                   C                C     C/B
In the tinder-box trap ....
   Am                         C/B   Am
At first I thought ...
C/G                         Am    C/G
Then I saw the ...
F                      D
And heard the sound of ...
C                  G
Comin' through ...

    Bb                 A
And somethin's ....
     B       G
DOES ANYBODY ...

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

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

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

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

    Bb                 A
and somethin's burnin' ...
B            G
DOES ANYBODY ...
           G
IS ANYBODY ...
           G
IS ANYBODY ...
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