Big American Headliner chords by Corb Lund

Key: D

🎸 Intro:

D G D G D
D  A




🎸 Verse 1:
D        G      D        G
Had me a dream, almost obscene
D             G         A
I never had a dream any finer
D        G     D              G
Had me a taste in the land of waste
        D             G
And the dream that we chased
        A                         D
As we became the big American headliner
       G    D   G A
Oh yeah, uh-huh

🎸 Verse 2:
D              G        D             G
Foamin' at the mouth we up and headed south
D                 G    A
South of the parallel 49er
D        G        D                 G
Had us a dream of Rolling Stone magazine
        D                G
And the girls they don't screamed
     A                         D
We became the big American headliner
       G    D   A
Oh yeah, uh-huh


🎸 Verse 3:
G          D                  G     D
Visions of sold out shows and candy for your nose
   G        D                         A
In America, anything goes, as we were soon to find
   G                   D
It doesn't matter what they place is
G                D
You can act like Oasis
       G                D
Screw 'till yer blue in the faces
           A                         D
When you become the big American headliner
       G    D   A
Oh yeah, uh-huh


🎸 Verse 4:
    G            D
And Leno said he loved our sound
   G                    D
As we were the toast of tinsel town
G                  D               A
Everyone and their dog came 'round to the scene
A
To be seen
   G            D
We did a “guest spot” on Friends
    G                 D
And sang our songs on Letterman
   G                  D
We looked towards the mighty Yen
           A                  N.C.                      D
'Cause the Japanese
Japanese love the big American headliner
       G    D   G A
Oh yeah, uh-huh


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
D   G D G A  D


🎸 Bridge:
D                                      G
Woke up in a hotel room in downtown Saskatoon
D              N.C.                 A
We gotta leave this afternoon for Regina


🎸 Verse 5:
D                     G
Yeah, we've got us an opening slot
      D                      G
These warmup gigs they never pay a lot
   D                    G
My patience, nerves and credit is shot
    A
But tonight we open for
A
They keep the door
                     D
The big American headliner
G  D
Oh yeah


🎸 Outro:
        G              D  G
And you gotta be on at 9er
A                        D
And the off by half past 9er
G  D
Oh yeah
       G                    D    G
And we can't use their drum riser
A                         D
So we drink their fucking rider
D  G
Oh yeah, uh-huh
A                    D
The big American Headliner