Chords for Keb' Mo' America The Beautiful

_ When I was a young kid when we got to watch the up late on weekends sometimes
_ Not school nights.
We got to watch television late when TV would go off
You know now it never goes off it stays on 24 or 7 24 hours a day
The back then it would go off and the big
Native American [F#] chiefs head would come up on the screen.
We just [C] go
_ [N] That was the end of TV.
It was over
So you had to think of something else to do but right before that a song would come on a lot of times
we'd come on either the Star-Spangled Banner would come on or
Ray Charles's version of America the beautiful which was always
Inspiring to me when I heard Ray Charles's version of America's beautiful.
It was so it's soulful _ _
But it had a lots of singers it was kind of grand and I thought to myself
He could maybe get that same kind of soulful feel
you know in a
just something in the blues
_ which is _ _
So American and rootsy is anything you ever want to want to want to hang on this one here.
Let's see
So _ so I just [D] started thought about
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_ _ [A] spacious
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_ _ _ John's _ [A] _
majesty
_ _ [E] _ _ _ But the [D] fruit
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_ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ God _ shed [G] his grace [D] _ on me
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