American Soil chords by Ezra Furman

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G+G

🎸 Intro:

G+G

🎸 Verse 1:
    G+G
There's something in the water
     C majorC              G+G
Something sick in the blood and the oil

See the white chicken grinning
    C majorC            G+G
See the serpent in a horrible coil

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
      C majorC
Don't be scared by the stares

Of the peasants on the subway car
      G+G           FF
Because the way things seem in a dream
      C majorC       G+G
Is just the way that they are

🎸 Chorus:
      D MajorD          C majorC
When I can feel God taking his eyes off you
     A augmentedA     C majorC    G+G
You were born for American soil
 C majorC   G+G C majorC
Oh yes

🎸 Verse 2:
    G+G
Every race has its place
   C majorC               G+G
Every nation fights for species survival

I'm a Jew through and through
   C majorC            G+G
And I'm about to write you a Bible

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
      C majorC
Now let me take your hand and show you through

The twisted hallways of the house of song
      G+G
We got the magazine wallpaper
    FF       C majorC       G+G
And the million dollar bills on the lawn

🎸 Chorus:
       D MajorD          C majorC
Oh and I can feel God taking his eyes off us
    A augmentedA     C majorC    G+G
We were born for American soil
 C majorC  G+G  C majorC    G+G
Oh, oh, oh, whoo

🎸 Verse 3:
      G+G
You don't have to be clever
   C majorC          G+G
To detect a big American sadness

When the population rules
   C majorC            G+G
Every man has his hand in the madness

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
        C majorC
Well, there's a dead grove of trees

You can visit on the outside of town
       G+G
And there's a digital dust
      FF    C majorC     G+G
Inside the cemetery settling down

🎸 Chorus:
        D MajorD          C majorC
Whoo, and I can feel God taking his eyes off us
    A augmentedA     C majorC    G+G
We were born for American soil
C majorC  G+G C majorC
 Ahh

🎸 Verse 4:
         G+G
Well, now we have seen every baby
    C majorC              G+G
Has to have some kinda mother and father
     G+G
But the child's gone wild
    C majorC             G+G
And the pieces got away from the author

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
      C majorC
Well, if freedom isn't free

All the bills must just be lost in the mail
    G+G
All the highways are on fire
    FF       C majorC      G+G
And the serpent is now eating his tail

🎸 Chorus:
      D MajorD          C majorC
And we can feel God taking his eyes off us
    A augmentedA     C majorC    G+G
We were born for American soil
 C majorC  G+G  C majorC  G+G C majorC   G+G
Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh
whoo

🎸 Outro:
C majorC