America Back chords by Jill Sobule

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: C

Verse:
C             Csus4     C      Csus4
Remember the garden of Eden?
C             Csus4          C      Csus4
Before Eve hung out with that snake?
C                       Csus4     C             Csus4
You could walk down the streets not worry bout thieves
C                     Csus4     C      Csus4
All the kids could go trick or treating.
C                    Csus4     C      Csus4
Then those foreigners started coming in
      C             Csus4     C      Csus4
Like the Germans in 1790
C             Csus4     C      Csus4
Then the Irish arrived, the potato blight
C             Csus4     C      Csus4
The neighborhood started changing
Am                G
Life was better, we lived right,
D/F#
Life had a paler shade of white,

Chorus:
            C
When they say
     F      C         F
“We want our America Back”
       C        F
Our America back
      C        G
Our America back
          C
When they say
    F          C      F
"We want our America Back"
C     N.C.
Well, what the fuck do they mean?

C  F (4X)

Verse:
C                F         C   F
Before there was Ellis Island
        C           F           C        F
And that statue we got from the French
     C               F                C            F
That whore’s still alerting, with strangers she’s flirting
C               F      C
Inviting them into our beds
      C          F             C            F
The guineas, the coolies, the wetbacks, the reds
     C         F           C    F
The Jews, now those terrorists
       C            F           C           F
And who let in the woman who looks after my kid
         C          F           C     F
And the one who is cleaning my mess?
Am                   G
Life was righteous, life was clean.
D/F#
Send em all back including me

Chorus:
            C        F         C         F
When they say, “we want our America back”,
       C        F         C       G
Our America back, our America back.”
           C         F         C       F
When they say, ”we want our America back”
       C         F           C
Well, what the…fuck do they mean?

C   F   (4X)

Verse:
    C        F               C  F   C        F            C       F
Before the gays had their agenda, before the slaves were free
   C          F       C   F    C         F       C
Before that man from Kenya he took the presidency

Chorus:
            C        F         C         F
When they say, “we want our America back”,
       C        F         C       G
Our America back, our America back.”
           C         F         C       F
When they say, ”we want our America back”
       C         F           C
Well, what the…fuck do they mean?
            C        F         C         F
When they say, “we want our America back”,
       C        F         C       G
Our America back, our America back.”
           C         F         C       F
When they say, ”we want our America back”
       C         F           C
Well, what the…fuck do they mean?