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Searching For A Father chords by Infant Sorrow

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Chord diagramAbAb Chord diagramDbDb
Chord diagramAbAb

Verse:
Chord diagramC minorCm           Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramDbDb
When I was young, I heard my dad say
                   Chord diagramAbAb
"Son, I'm leaving now."
Chord diagramG minorGm            Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramDbDb
And he said "Other men do as other men please
                              Chord diagramAbAb       Chord diagramG minorGm
And Aldous is the name with which I leave you."

Chorus:
  Chord diagramF minorFm       Chord diagramDbDb
And here I am
       Chord diagramAbAb                               Chord diagramEb MajorEb
While all around me things become hysterical
         Chord diagramF minorFm
Here I stand
              Chord diagramDbDb
Beneath the robes of Lady Liberty
Chord diagramAbAb                          Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramF minorFm
Searching for a father in America
Chord diagramAbAb                         Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramAbAb
Searching for a father in America

Verse:
Chord diagramG minorGm        Chord diagramF minorFm
I was sixteen
   Chord diagramDbDb
I took a trip

To Washington, D.C
        Chord diagramAbAb        Chord diagramG minorGm
Just my mom and me
        Chord diagramF minorFm
Saw the reflecting pool
         Chord diagramDbDb
And the Capitol
                          Chord diagramAbAb      Chord diagramEb MajorEb     Chord diagramF minorFm
Chord diagramA augmentedA guy wanked off at the Vietnam Memorial

Chorus:
       Chord diagramDbDb
Here I am
Chord diagramAbAb                       Chord diagramEb MajorEb
Staring at a canyon quite deadly
        Chord diagramF minorFm
Here I stand
           Chord diagramDbDb
Baptised beneath the falls of Niagra
Chord diagramAbAb                         Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramF minorFm
Searching for a father in America
Chord diagramAbAb                         Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramAbAb
Searching for a father in America

Bridge:
         Chord diagramC majorC
Number one: George Washington
Chord diagramG+G
Lost his dad when he was one
       Chord diagramBb majorBb
Jimmy Carter made himself a son of wood
      Chord diagramA augmentedA
But like Pinocchio

He weren't very good
Chord diagramDmDm
Lincoln, shot by his son
Chord diagramG+G
In the theater, up his bum
Chord diagramC majorC
Nixon he had no son
     Chord diagramB minorBm
Too late, his own son was Watergate
          Chord diagramBb majorBb
Ronald Reagan, he got shot
      Chord diagramA augmentedA
For Jodie Foster, quite a lot
 Chord diagramD MajorD
Nancy, stupid cow
    Chord diagramG+G
He can't remember her no more, yeah

Chord diagramAbAb
   America

           Chord diagramF minorFm
When I am old
      Chord diagramDbDb
I'll find my dad
                                  Chord diagramAbAb
They'll recreate his body from my DNA
              Chord diagramF minorFm               Chord diagramDbDb
And I'll say "Other men do as other men please
                              Chord diagramAbAb     Chord diagramG minorGm
And Aldous is the name with which I grieve."

Chorus:
     Chord diagramF minorFm
And now
       Chord diagramDbDb
Here I am
   Chord diagramAbAb                           Chord diagramEb MajorEb
Seeking my redemption in this heathen land
         Chord diagramF minorFm
Here I stand
            Chord diagramDbDb
Amidst the stars and stripes and scientists
Chord diagramAbAb                         Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramF minorFm
Searching for a father in America
Chord diagramAbAb                         Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramAbAb
Searching for a father in America

Outro:
Chord diagramAbAb
I am my own father

I gave birth to me, yeah

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