I Dont Want To Be An American Anymore
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
6th traste
[Verse 1]
A E F#m E D
I don’t want to be an American anymore
A E F#m E D
If it means the rich get rich and the poor keep getting more poor
F#m E D F#m E D
White nationalists can storm the capitol building
F#m E D
No consequence no tear gas or bullets
F#m E D
What in the hell were they thinking?
[Chorus]
F#m F#m7
Whatever happened to freedom?
D
I don’t feel very free
F#m F#m7
No I feel like a hostage
D
In Washington DC
F#m F#m7
No I feel like a hostage
E
In my country
[Instrumental]
A E F#m E D
[Verse 2]
A E F#m E D
I don’t want to be an American in this day and age
A E F#m E D
Cuz we’ve all become pariahs on the international stage
F#m E D E D
You're not welcome here you’ll burn down our houses
D
Start riots in the street
F#m E D E D
The virus isn’t airborne it’s sewed into our flag seams
[Chorus]
F#m F#m7
Red white and blue?
D
I don’t know about you
F#m F#m7
When I see that flag these days I simply
D
Don’t know what to do
F#m F#m7
I don’t have the pride in the Stars and Stripes
D
The way i used to.
[Instrumental]
A E F#m E D
[Verse 3]
A E F#m E D
I don’t want to be an American anymore
A E F#m E D
If it means I’ll have to choose a side in a second civil war
F#m E D
Why is this one man worth all this violence?
F#m E B7
And how in the hell can you stay silent?
F#m E D
How can you watch all these riots and say
Dm
“If you don’t like it, there’s the door”?
A E
I don’t want to be an American anymore
[Outro]
A E F#m E D A
How to play I Dont Want To Be An American Anymore
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