Tonart: D major
Verse 1
D
G
D
G
D
The bottom of my
C
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boots sure are get ting warm
C
G
There's a lot of holes
My hands are black with dirt
Csus2
and so is my face
G
I ain't never been to hell,
worse in this place.
Tell my wife don't worry,
C
cause I know what to do.
G
It makes her feel better sometimes,
D
but I don't know if it's true.
C
I know if I die, it's just my time to go.
G
But I pray to God every day
D
that I may get back home.
what I've seen,
C
things don't seem so bad
G
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
D
and thank God for what you have
A
Cause I couldn't be raising
C
my family in this place
G
When I was born an American
D
G
D
by God's amazing grace
For the last 12 months
G
The neighborhood smells like sewage
D
and the streets are lined with trash
You never know what's gonna be
C
the next thing to explode
G
But unlike these people,
It breaks my heart to see these
C
kids out on the streets
G
Walking barefoot through the trash,
D
begging for something to eat
I give them what I got
C
just to let them know I care
G
And I thank God it's not my
D
son that's standing there
what I've seen,
C
things don't seem so bad
G
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
D
And thank God for what you had
A
Because I couldn't be raising
C
my family in this place
G
But I was born an American
Interlude 1
By God's amazing grace
Dm
D
C
G
D
C
G
Verse 2
G
D
If you want to talk about it
Csus2
C
you better keep it short
G
I got a lot of lost time
I really don't care why Bush
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C
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went in to Iraq
G
D
I know what I done there
Dm
D
and I'm damn sure proud of that
If you got something bad
G
You better say it before different ears
D
Lest you want to crawl away
And I'll laugh in your face
C
when you say you've got it bad
G
Until you spend some time
D
in the streets of Baghdad
A
Well, you've seen what I've seen,
C
things don't seem so bad
G
You quit worrying about what
you ain't got
D
and thank God for what you have
A
C
Cause you couldn't be raising your family
in this place
G
But you were born an American
Outro 1
By God's amazing grace
D
C
G
D
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