Chords for Loretta Lynn & Bobby Bare - God Bless America Again

This is my old fishing buddy here.
The reason I call him old fishing buddy, I don't ever get to go fishing with him,
but I've been trying to call him up on the lake.
You live up there, don't you?
Just about.
I bring back all the fishing news.
How come it is that you don't ever bring us and Loretta and the Nashville Tennesseans anything to eat?
Well, I'll tell you what, fishing has been kind of slow lately. _
Besides that, I've been to Europe and haven't had a chance to fish.
You've been a little bit slow answering that telephone, too, lately.
I talked to String Bean yesterday about fishing, and I asked him, he said he hooked a big one,
and I said, where'd you hook him at?
And [Ab] he said, right there.
_ [Bm] _
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Bobby, one of my favorite songs, one of my all-time favorite songs, you helped write.
Yes, Doyle, I know what you're talking about.
In fact, Boyce Hawkins, I believe, helped me write it.
Boyce and I wrote this together, and I feel it has a message that needs to be said,
and I really appreciate your liking this song.
It's one of my all-time favorites, and in fact, I had the opportunity to do the recitation
_ on a Loretta Lynn record of this song.
It will be released before too very long.
It's a masterpiece, I heard it.
I just think it's great, and I want you to do it [Eb] with Loretta now, if you don't mind.
Well, I would love to, and it's my pleasure.
Friends, like I said earlier, God _ bless America again. _ _
_ _ _ God [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] again, _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ you see all [Ab] the trouble that [Bb] she's in. _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Wash her pretty face, _ _ [Eb] dry her eyes, and _ then [Ab] go to _ [Bb] _
America _ [Eb] again. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] God bless America [Eb] again, _ just like you did way back there when it all began.
_ You [Fm] blessed her then, [Ab] and we just [Bb] kind of took it for granted, and we didn't ask again.
_ [Ab] So just hold her hand now, that's all.
_ In [Eb] case she stumbles, _ _ _ please don't [Ab] let her fall.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ God, _ [Ab] _
America _ [Eb] again, _ _ _ _ _ _ you see [Ab] all the trouble that [Bb] she's in.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Wash her pretty face, _ _ [Eb] dry her eyes, and _ then [Ab] go to _ [Bb] _
America _ [Eb] _ again. _ _
_ _ _ _ God bless America again.
You know, [Ab]
I don't understand [Eb] everything that I read and hear about what's wrong with America.
_ When you don't have a lot of [Ab] book learning, _ there's [Bb] many things that you don't understand. _
_ But I know [Ab] this much.
She's like a mother to me, and I love her with all [Eb] my heart.
And let me tell you this.
Everything I [Bb] am or ever hoped to be, [Eb] I owe to her. _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Wash her pretty _ face, _ [Eb] dry her eyes, and then
_ _ [Ab] _ God bless [Bb] _
America _ [Ab] again.
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