Chords for Where Have All Our Heroes Gone (Bill Anderson)

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Where _ [Db] have all our [Ab] heroes _ gone? _ _ _ _ _
_ What's [Db] come over our [Ab]
great land? _ _ _ _ _
America [Db] is still my [Ab] home, sweet _ home
_ _ _ But where [Eb] have all our [Ab] heroes gone?
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_ _ Because I'd seen the cover, and the [A] man that they [Ab] were talking about
[Eb] had instigated a riot in one of our major cities [Ab] last summer.
[Eb] And the magazine [Fm] was writing about how the police [Ab] were unkind to him,
the [Db] judges were unfair with him,
and [Ab] how he talked back and slung his long hair about and cussed and did his thing.
And they made him into a [Db] regular hero.
_ [Ab] And inside this magazine was the story of the baseball player who got involved with the gamblers,
of the [Gb] football player who [Db] said that football was not the end,
just [Ab] a means to an end, meaning the girls and the good times.
And a story of the [Ebm] folk singer who proudly claims [Gm] to be both a member of [Ab] a party alien to our government
[Eb] and a non-tax [Ab]-paying citizen.
These young boys read with [Db] open eyes and open minds.
[Eb] And I thought to myself, my God, are these the people [Ab] that these young [Db] boys look up to?
Are these their idols?
Are [Ebm] these the heroes [Eb] of the now [Ab] generation?
America _ [Db] is still my home [Ab] sweet _ _ home.
_ _ But where _ [Eb] have all our [Ab] heroes gone?
_ [E] _ _ [Bb] I had [Db] heroes when I was a kid, we [D] all did.
And our heroes did [A] their thing too.
Like General Douglas [E] MacArthur who returned [A] like he said he would.
Like [D] Gene Autry and Roy Rogers who chased the bad guys [A] right off the screen.
Like Lindbergh who flew the ocean.
And Jesse Owens [D] who showed Hitler.
And John [E] Wayne and Gary Cooper.
[A] After all, [E] didn't they really [A] win the war?
And [E] General Ike, bless your [A] soul, because you made us feel safe.
_ _ [B] We've killed some of our [A] recent heroes, [D] the Kennedys and [A] Kings.
And even as great as their space feats are, how many of the astronauts can you name?
[D] Huh?
How many?
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My heroes were people like Joe DiMaggio who proved that nice guys can finish first.
[D] And Stan Musial [A] who never had an unkind word for anybody.
And Winston Churchill whose two fingers raised together meant [E] victory.
Not just to let your enemy have it all kind of [F] artificial peace.
_ This country needs a lot of things today, friends.
But it [Bb] doesn't need any one thing any more than it needs some real heroes.
Men who know what it means to be looked up to by a grimy [Cm]-faced kid.
Men who want to sign autographed books and [Bb] not deals under the table.
Men who are willing to play the game with the people who made them heroes.
Men [F] who don't mind putting on a white hat and saying thank [Bb] you and please.
I [Db] wish I knew more men that I'd be proud for [F] my son to look up [Bb] to and say,
Daddy, when I grow up, I want to be just like him. _ _
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