🎸 Democracy chords by The Lumineers

Intro:
A Dm A

Verse 1:

   A        D      A
It's coming through a hole in the air

            D    A
From those nights in Tiananmen Square

    D            Dm
It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real

     A
Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there

     C#
From the wars against disorder

     F#m
From the sirens night and day

     C#
From the fires of the homeless

     F#m
From the ashes of the gay

  E        D    A
Democracy is coming to the USA


Verse 2:

 A          D       A
It's coming through a crack in the wall

A        D     A
On a visionary flood of alcohol

      D            Dm
From the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount

     A
Which I don't pretend to understand at all

    C#              F#m
It's coming from the silence on the dock of the bay

     C#              F#m
From the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet

 E        D    A
Democracy is coming to the USA


Verse 3:

 A           D       A
It's coming from the sorrow in the street

 A        D       A
The holy places where the races meet

     D
From the homicidal bitchin'

      Dm
That goes down in every kitchen

   A
To determine who will serve and who will eat

     C#
From the wells of disappointment

     F#m
Where the women kneel to pray

     C#
For the grace of God in the desert here

    C#m
And the desert far away

 E         D    A
Democracy is coming to the USA


Chorus:

   E     D
Sail on, sail on

  A
O mighty ship of state

     E
To the shores of need

      D
Past the reefs of greed

       A
Through the squalls of hate

   Bm    E    D A
Sail on, sail on, sail on


Verse 4:

A        D    A
It's coming to America first

    A      D       A
The cradle of the best, of the worst

   D
It's here they've got the range

     Dm
And the machinery for change

     A
And it's here they've got the spiritual thirst

   C#
It's here the family's broken

     F#m
And it's here the lonely say

     C#
That the heart has got to open

   F#m
In a fundamental way

 E         D    A
Democracy is coming to the USA


Verse 5:

    A       D       A
It's coming from the women and the men

  A       D       A
Oh baby, we'll be making love again

 D
We'll be going down so deep

     Dm
That the river's going to weep

      A
And the mountain's gonna shout "Amen"

    C#             F#m
It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway

 C#           F#m
Imperial, mysterious, in amorous array

 E        D    A
Democracy is coming to the USA


Chorus:

   E     D
Sail on, sail on

  A
O mighty ship of state

     E
To the shores of need

     D
Past the reefs of greed

       A
Through the squalls of hate

   Bm    E    D A
Sail on, sail on, sail on


Interlude:
A Dm A Dm A


Verse 6:

   A          D     A
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean

    A            D        A
Oh, I love the country, but I can't stand the scene

     D               Dm
And I'm neither left or right, I'm just staying home tonight

     A
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen

     C#                F#m
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay

   C#                 F#m
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet

 E           D    A
Democracy is coming to, to the USA

D    A
 To the USA

D    A
 To the USA

D    A
 To the USA