Ameriican Requiem chords by Beyoncé

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

Gm   Gm   Gm
Nothin' really ends
            C             Fm5
For things to stay the same, they have to change again
Gm    Gm  Gm
Hello, my old friend
                      C    Gm
You change your name, but not the ways you play pretend
Gm    G  Fm
American Requiem
   Gm Gm   Fm     Gm   Gm  Fm
Them big ideas (Yeah), are buried here (Yeah)
Gm G C  Gm Gm
Amen

Gm Gmsus4

🎸 Chorus:
Gm               Gmsus4 Gmsus4
It's a lot of talkin' goin' on
Gm        Gm
While I sing my song
Gm
Can you hear me?
Gm             Gm
I said, "Do you hear me "

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
Gm         Cm
Looka there, looka there now
Gm            Gm
Looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Oh)
Gmsus4
Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (Yeah)

🎸 Chorus:
Gm              Gmsus4
It's a lotta chatter in here
Gm             Gmsus4
But let me make myself clear (Oh)
Gm       Gmsus4
Can you hear me? (Huh)
Gm         Gmsus4
Or Do you fear me? (Ow)

🎸 Verse 1:
    Gm     Cm
Can we stand for something?
Gm           Gm     Gmsus4
Now is the time to face the wind (Ow)
     Gm
Coming in peace and love, y'all
Gmsus4 Gm       Gmsus4
Oh, a lot of takin' up space
Gm          Gmsus4
Salty tears beyond my gaze
Gm
Can you stand me?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
Ooh, ah
Gmsus4
Can we stand?
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?
Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
Can you stand with me?

🎸 Chorus:
    Gm    Cm
Can we stand for something?
Gm             Gm
Now is the time to face the wind
Now ain't the time to pretend
Now is the time to let love in

🎸 Bridge:
Thinkin' to myself (Thinkin' to myself)
Oh, it's a lot of talkin' goin' on (Oh)
While I sing my song (Yeah)
Do you hear me when I say?
Gm
Do you hear me when I say? Ah

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
G#m     Cm
Looka there, looka there
Gm
Looka, look
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
      G#m     Cm
Looka-looka there, looka there
Gm               G#m
L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-looka there
   Cm     Gm
Oh, looka there, looka there
Looka there, looka there
Gm         Cm        Gm
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)
L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L
(Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me)

🎸 Chorus:
Gm        Fm
Can we stand for something?
Cm     Gm        Gm        Fm        Cm
Now is the time to face the wind (Now is the time to face the wind)
       Gm     Gm  Fm
Now ain't the time to pretend
Cm     Gm        Gm       Fm
Now is the time to let love in (To let love in)
Gm
Together, can we stand?

🎸 Verse 2:
Gm
Looka there, looka in my hand
The grandbaby of a moonshine man
Gadsden, Alabama
         Gmsus4
Got folk down in Galveston, rooted in Louisiana
Gm
Used to say I spoke too country
Gm           Gm
And the rejection came, said I wasn't country 'nough
            Gm
Said I wouldn't saddle up, but
  Gm
If that ain't country, tell me what is?
Plant my bare feet on solid ground for years
                     Gm/Gm
They don't, don't know how hard I had to fight for this
    Gm
When I sang my song

🎸 Outro:
(When I sang the song of Abraham)
(When the angels guide and take my hand)
Gm
(Oh, no)
Gm
Goodbye to what has been
 Gm   Gm     C    Fm
A pretty house that we never settled in
Gm
A funeral for fair-weather friends
 Gm   Gm   C        Gm    Fm
I Am the one to cleanse me of my Father's sins
Gm    G   Fm
American Requiem
   Gm  Gm  Fm F   Gm   Gm  Fm
Them big ideas (Yeah) are buried here (Yeah)
Gm Gm C  Gm Gm
Amen