Chords for Martyn Joseph - Lonely Like America

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_ [B] _ Alright, [C#] The Brook.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ A redwood forest, Gulf Stream [E] water, _ _ _ [A] stallion wild, big country sky.
[E] _ _ _ [F#] Cactus [A]
sculptured, widow [E] prairie, _ _ _ [F#] New [A] York rain and Texas [E] dry.
_ _ [C#m] _ [E] Frontier boomtowns of [B] displacement, your schooner [B] patriotic way.
[E] Your money [E] bearing Rushmore's giants, _
[F#] but your dollars [A] paper thin.
I'm lonely like America, [E] [B] a land of less and more and I am.
Lonely [A] like [E]
America, a mythic [B] race, Lantauran, [A] pioneers and [C#] racketeers.
Seapeer wagon train, across the Midwest plain.
_ Lonely like [E] America, _ _ _
[A] _ lonely like [E] America, _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] on [A] Norma Desmond's withered [E] mansion.
_ _ _ _ [A] Travis Bickle's [E] raging streets, _ _ [C#] _ [A] Martin Luther King's [E] last journey,
_ _ from [A] Memphis for the [E] mercy seat.
_ _ _ But now the curse of Steinbeck's offspring, the poor foreclosed and [B] left to bleed.
[E] A wounded bearer, Tethered Eagle, [F#] are in a cage of [A] make-believe.
Lonely like [E] America, a land of less and [F#] more and I am.
Lonely like [E] America, this [B] mythic race, [F#] Lantauran, pioneers and racketeers.
Seapeer wagon [A] trains, across the Midwest plain. _
Lonely like America, _ _ _ _ well lonely [E] like America.
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_ _ [C#m] But I know you've seen [E] the mountain, _
_ _ [C#m] you've breathed [A] the words of [E] destiny. _
_ _ [B] Abe Lincoln called into this great [E] nation, _ _ to ring the bell of [E] liberty. _
_ [C#m] To ring the bell called [E] liberty, _
_ _ [C#m] to ring it out for you [E] and me. _
_ _ _ Because we [A] are lonely like America, a land of less and more and [E] I am.
Lonely like America, this mythic race, Lantauran, the pioneers, the [F#] racketeers.
Seapeer wagon [A] trains, across the Midwest plain.
We're lonely like [E] America, [Em] the hustler [B] and the fray.
[A] Lonely like [E] America, from [B] sea to shining [E] sea.
The flag that's draped [F#] around the grave, stars and stripes of [A] deep dismay.
Simply not having a nice day.
We are lonely, [E] America.
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Lonely [E] like America.
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Lonely [E] like Ameri- Hey!
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Lonely [E] like Amer-
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Lonely like America.
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