American Blood chords by Eli Hundley

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC A minorAm


Verse:
A minorAm             G+G
In the belly of the bakken, it's cold

and black and deep
FF         C majorC
You work the hitch survive the time
A minorAm
killin what you keep

A minorAm            G+G
Some here are forgotten, and some will

find their souls
FF         C majorC
Some will keep on searching digging
A minorAm
deeper holes

   G+G     FF    G+G    A minorAm
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Verse:
A minorAm          G+G
So here I go, against that cold Dakota
wind
FF              C majorC
I know where I call home but somehow
     G+G
I'm here again
A minorAm
These fields are my mind and these
G+G
stains on my skin
    FF
They don't wash off with the mud, it's
       A minorAm
in my American blood

   G+G     FF    G+G    A minorAm
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh


Verse:
A minorAm            G+G
Snow is blowing sideways, the

interstate shut down
     FF        C majorC
Spent the night outside of Casper in a
A minorAm
sleepy motel town
A minorAm
Keep rollin into Texas cause they're
G+G
drilling in the west
FF           C majorC
But all those rigs out on the flats
   A minorAm
weigh heavy on my chest
   G+G     A minorAm
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

A minorAm            G+G
So here I go, against that hot west

Texas wind
 FF              C majorC
I know where I call home but somehow
     G+G
I'm here again
   A minorAm
These fields are my mind and these
G+G
stains on my skin
     FF
They don't wash off with the mud, it's
        A minorAm
in my American blood
   G+G     FF    G+G    A minorAm
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh


     C majorC
Well I've worked in North Dakota,
  G+G
Colorado, California
    FF
And in every boom that's come and gone
 A minorAm
between
      C majorC
I've been a chainhand and a pithand I
    G+G
hauled oil out of the badlands
  FF
No doubt this land was made for you
  A minorAm
and me


A minorAm            G+G
So here we go, feel that spirit in the
wind
 FF
We may never make it home and it's
C majorC       G+G
back to work again
A minorAm
Our families on our minds and these
G+G
scars on our skin
      FF
They don't wash off with the mud, it's
        A minorAm
in our American blood

   G+G     FF
Oh Oh Oh  Oh Oh Oh
          A minorAm
It's in our American blood

   G+G     FF    G+G    A minorAm
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh