Chords with lyrics
CHORUS ONE
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I wanna see the states
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I wanna see the states
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From the foggy Golden Gate to the great Michigan lakes
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I wanna see the states
VERSE ONE
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Oh, how did you get to this town?
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Was it where you were born or did you move around?
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California?s got places down south
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We can lay in the sun on the beach
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Drive up the Oregon coast
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Its rocky and lighthouses dot it for most of the way
Through to Washington?Cascadian snow
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On the tips of Olympian peaks
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North to Alaska and we had no fear
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We were on to the future, the final frontier
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While in Hawaii they?re probably righteously
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Surfing the worlds greatest breaks
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But oh, Idaho
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Has got the most
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Respectable
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Folks we know
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We?ll follow the Rockies & never stop roaming Through Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
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Down in New Mexico, we?re eating green chilies
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We?ll hit the slopes up in Park City, Utah
CHORUS TWO
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Well, I wanna see the states
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I wanna see the states
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From Nevada's Vegas strange to the wicked pines of Maine
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I wanna see the states
VERSE TWO
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Deep down in Texas, there?s bright starry skies
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Oklahomians all realize
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That the sun never sets we?re just spinning around
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Spun up to Kansas and clung to the ground
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Slipped off the great plain to Southern Missouri
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A augmentedA creek and a sunset with no need to hurry
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Just lazily drifting the great Mississippi
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Through Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky
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Down to the bayous of Louisiana
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Glowing fireflies down in Alabama
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Lit up your face like you?re next to the moon
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South Carolina, we?ll be getting there soon
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But Ohio
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Has got the most
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Festivals
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And swing votes
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Span Indiana right over the crossroads
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In Illinois we had deep dish and hot dogs
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Cornhuskers score a Nebraskan point and I
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Hear some music from downtown Des Moines Iowa
CHORUS Three
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And I wanna see the states
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I wanna see the states
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From Florida?s southern cays to the Delaware tax rates
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I wanna see the states
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I wanna dip my feet into the sand
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I wanna dive into the Rio Grande
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From the tall Virginian trees to a sultry Georgian breeze
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I wanna see the land
VERSE THREE
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Fall in New Hampshire
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We stopped by the woods
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With paid parking meters by rogue Robin Hoods
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Freedom and unity o?er in Vermont
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There?s hope in Rhode Island to live how we want
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So live how you like but I love Massachusetts
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New York's got places where we can get loose
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It's like everything you ever wanted at once
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We?ll go upstate, and we can stay there for months
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We?ll cut through the forests to Hartford, Connecticut
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Can?t help but love famous New Jersey etiquette
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O?er in DC on the Capitol Hill
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Historic decisions are being made still
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The West Virginian mountains are wild and wonderful
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North Carolina where autumn is colorful
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Crabbing in Maryland, hoagies in Harrisburg
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Pennsylvania declared us America
BRIDGE
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But it's far
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It's far
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Oh it's far
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Yeah, it's far between them
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But take it from me
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It?s worth all the long car rides to see them
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Just wait till you see
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Yosemite or New England
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They?ll make you believe in life, liberty, and freedom
CHORUS FOUR
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Well, I wanna see the states
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I wanna see the states
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From the lakes of Minnesota
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To the North and South Dakotas
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I wanna see the states
E MajorE A augmentedA
I wanna dip my feet into the sand
E MajorE BB
I wanna dive into the Rio Grande
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From the Arizona desert
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To Wisconsin?s snowy weather
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I wanna see the land
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I wanna see the land