The House I Live In chords by Keely Smith

Intro: B7 Cdim A F#m Bm5-/7 E7/13 A E7/9-

A        F#m Cdim E7 A   A7
What is  America  to me
  D      Cdim    A7M    C#m5-/7
A name, a map, a flag I  see
D        Cdim     C#m5-/7  F#7
A certain word, "Democracy"
D   F#m  Bm7 Bm5-/7 E7
What is America to me
    Fdim    A7M          D9      E7/13     A7M
The house I live in  a plot of earth, a street,
     D9    E7/13    A       F#m        C      Am7     A
The grocer and the butcher,  all the people that I meet
     D9      E7      A         F#m   D9    E7     F#m
The children in the playground,  the faces that I see
    B7     Cdim    A          F#m     Bm5-/7 E7/13   A
All races,  and  religions that's America to me
    Fdim    A7M          D9    E7/13   A7M
The place I work in, the worker at my side
    D9     E7/13    A           F#m            C      Am7        A
The little town or city where my people lived and died
     D9      E7         A           F#m   D9       E7         F#m
The "howdy" and the handshake,  the air of feeling free
    B7       Cdim     A6      A       F#m    D9   E7/13   A
The right to speak my mind out that's America to me
           D9      E       A             D9              E            A
The things I see about me the big things and the small
         Em7     A7          D                 Em7     A7     D
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall
      C#7              F#m                   C#7                        F#m
The wedding and the churchyard, the laughter and the tears,
            E                    B7             E               Edim            E7
The dream that's been a growin' for twohundred thirty years
    Fdim     A7M          D9            E7/13        A7M
The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
      D9     E7/13     A     F#m   C         Am7        A
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom,
      D9         E7         A                   D9                 E7            F#m
The church, the school, the club house, the million lights I see
      D9   Fdim     A      F#m  D9    E7  Fdim F#m
But especially the people  that's America  to  me
  D9   Fdim     A     F#m   D9   E7 Bm5-/7 D9   Dm6   A
Especially the people that's America  to   me