American chords by Skylar Grey

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE

Verse:
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
Wheres your honor, wheres my pride?
F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
Even when it's hard to find
F# minorF#m          A augmentedA     E MajorE
From seed to harvest, it's been engrained

F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
Drive me past the fields of corn
F# minorF#m          A augmentedA
As Johnny Cash blasts in your Ford
F# minorF#m         A augmentedA       E MajorE
Just get me home to catch the big game

Chorus:
D MajorD          F# minorF#m
Cause I was born an American
D MajorD        E MajorE
On the same dark soil
      B minorBm    F# minorF#m   D MajorD
Through the years and all the changes
       F# minorF#m E MajorE     D MajorD
Still theres no place like home
      E MajorE   F# minorF#m
I will die an American

F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE

Verse:
F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
It's fireflies & times of war
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
I think back to a time before
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA    E MajorE
Of catching fireflies in my hands

F# minorF#m           A augmentedA
Then it seems I grew up in a flash
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
A majorA copper penny flying off a track
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA     E MajorE
Free to fall in love with any man

Chorus:
D MajorD          F# minorF#m
Cause I was born an American
D MajorD        E MajorE
On the same dark soil
      B minorBm    F# minorF#m   D MajorD
Through the years and all the changes
       F# minorF#m E MajorE     D MajorD
Still theres no place like home

D MajorD       F# minorF#m
I was born an American
D MajorD            E MajorE
and though I've grow(i)n old
      B minorBm    F# minorF#m   D MajorD
Through the years and all the changes
       F# minorF#m E MajorE     D MajorD
Still theres no place like home
      E MajorE   F# minorF#m
and I will die an American

Outro: