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I Discovered America Chords by Graham Parker

I Discovered America chords by Graham Parker

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Em   C     G
Em   C     G
Em   C     G
Em C  D  G
Em C  D  G

Verse 1:
Em        C             G
There was smoke up to my eyeballs
Em     C         G
Poison burned my throat
Em         C             G
But I said I'd keep on going
Em     C             G
When everyone said don't
Em       C           G
With my bony-chested t-shirt
Em    C             G
Some stolen guitar licks
Em         C        G
Navigating by dead reckoning
Em  C     G
In 1976
Em          C                G
And when the mighty chains of darkness
Em     C      G
Had me on the ropes
Em      C         G
Everyone said quit now
Em     C            G
That's when I found hope.
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Chorus:
Em      C                  G
So please don't tell Columbus
Em    C                 G
Don't tell his queen for sure
Em    C                  G
That I had the accurate compass
Em   C         D     G
And I discovered America
Em    C        D     G
Yeah I discovered America

Verse 2:
Em       C                   G
Well the guy in the five and dime store
Em      C                 G
Said it ain't anywhere around here
Em        C             G
Take your business elsewhere
Em       C          G
Along with your mad idea
Em      C               G
So I looked inside your closet
Em       C        G
And your broken tv set
Em       C             G
You said that you were born here
Em      C               G
But you hadn't found it yet

Chorus:
Em      C                  G
So please don't tell Columbus
Em    C                G
Don't tell his queen for sure
Em    C                  G
That I had the accurate compass
Em    C        D     G
And I discovered America
Em    C        D     G
Yeah I discovered America

Verse 3:
Em           C                   G
Well I knew one day she'd let me in
Em      C          G
I knew I'd get the girl
Em      C                      G
And live in a town called Veteran
Em   C              G
Pork capitol of the world

Chorus:
Em      C                  G
So please don't tell Columbus
Em    C                G
Don't tell his queen for sure
Em    C                    G
That I had the accurate compass
Em   C         D     G
And I discovered America

Hamonica Break
Em   C     G
Em   C     G
Em   C     G
Em C  D  G
Em C  D  G

Verse 4:
Em        C                         G
Well they've dammed the Yangtse River
Em       C          G
There'll be hell to pay
Em      C                    G
But I guess that's what you do
Em       C                           G
When the Yangtse River gets in your way

Verse 5:
Em      C                    G
But I had that positive feeling
Em     C                    G
I knew I was on the right track
Em      C                     G
When a flat earth society member
Em      C             G
Told me I must turn back
Em      C                G
He said I’d reach the abyss
Em       C         G
And keep on going down
Em       C                G
So I gave him my last pencil
Em      C                      G
And I flattened him to the ground
Em      C                       G
Then an army of Christian soldiers
Em     C                        G
Broke through the ranks and charged
Em       C                     G
With their ice cream vendor buddies
Em        C                  G
And their milquetoast rearguard
Em       C                     G
They had wheelbarrows full of elastic
Em       C           G
And paper mache hearts
Em      C                   G
And things I did not recognize
Em      C             G
Impaled upon their darts
Em       C                     G
And when the mighty chains of darkness
Em     C         G
Had me on the ropes
Em       C          G
Everyone said quit now
Em      C              G
That's when I found hope
Em        C               G
Yeah that's when I found hope

Chorus:
Em      C                  G
So please don't tell Columbus
Em    C                G
Don't tell his queen for sure
Em    C                         G
That I had the accurate compass
Em   C         D     G
And I discovered America
Em      C                  G
So please don't tell Columbus
Em    C                G
Don't tell his queen for sure
Em    C                         G
That I had the accurate compass
Em   C         D     G
And I discovered America
Em   C         D     G
Yeah I discovered America
Em   C         D     G
Yeah I discovered America
Em   C         D     G
Yeah I discovered America

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