That's The Thing About America chords by Montgomery Gentry

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G C

Verse 1:
G
Wanna know what Uncle Joe thinks?
       C
We oughta take them tanks and guns and bombs
    G                          C
And load them planes and get them boys and girls on home
        G
That gets my dad mad, boiling red
C

Revved up vein poppin' outta his head
      G
Sayin' you pull out now, you shame the ones
    C
Who fought and bled and came home dead
      Am        G
For your right to gripe, left to right
    C          G
Then momma shouts, boys hush your mouth
Am           Bm   C
Grab a plate and bow your heads

And be thankful when the grace is said 'cause...

Chorus:
G      C      D
That's the thing about America
G         C          D
  You can dream or do or say what you wanna
      Em              C
You can run it down if you can back it up
      G         D
You can burn the flag or be the man
    Am         G
Who takes a stand, says I'll be damned
     C
If some bleedin' heart thinks he can tread

On the thread of the white, and the blue, and the red
G               D
 That's the thing about America

Interlude:
G C

Verse 2:
            G
Now the coffee and the TV's on
      C          G
And we're eating the pie handed down

From my grandma's side from her grandma
    C
When she arrived back in '25
        G
She tells us all again
     C
How her mom came off of that big boat
    G
With all them folks all skin and bones
    C
And an angry mob sayin' go back home
     Am             G
Now the anchorman says they're making plans
C         G
Fencing up the Rio Grande
   Am         G          C
Aunt Kitty drops her fork and shouts Amen

And granny says hell just let 'em all in

Chorus:
G        C      D
That's the thing about America
G         C          D
  You can dream or do or say what you wanna
      Em              C
You can run it down if you can back it up
      G         D
You can burn the flag or be the man
    Am         G
Who takes a stand, says I'll be damned
     C
If some bleedin' heart thinks he can tread

On the thread of the white, and the blue, and the red
G               D  Em
 That's the thing about America

Interlude:
C D Em

Chorus:
G        C      D
That's the thing about America
G         C          D
  You can dream or do or say what you wanna
      Em              C
You can run it down if you can back it up
      G         D
You can burn the flag or be the man
    Am         G
Who takes a stand, says I'll be damned
     C
If some bleedin' heart thinks he can tread

On the thread of the white, and the blue, and the red
G                D
 That's the thing about America
G        C      D
That's the thing about America