American Hero chords by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Em

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

Em D C/G D (x2)


Verse One:
Em        D
 My god, do you even know my name?
    C/G
Are you changing up your mind over changes
       D  Em        D
I never made for you? We are no more than we'll ever be
   C/G
With heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe,
D   Em            D
In the stage lights, come down, breaking over me
    C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream, heaven heaven is a dream,
D Em       D
I  believed but never would've been,
    C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream,
             D Em
Heaven heaven is a dream, I

Chorus:
Em      D          C/G
 I would do anything for you to love me
         D  Em
Like I'm an American hero, baby
   D
Star-spangled in my manner shaking
C/G                    D  Em
Every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
      D          C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
          D  Em
There goes an American hero, darling
     D
Call the press and tell 'em all
      C/G                      D  Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."


Post-Chorus:
Em           D          C/G
 If you really don't mind, take me as I am
                D   Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
      D        C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
            D Em
When I say I carry all my sins
        D          C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
         D Em  D  C/G
Call me an American hero
         D Em  D  C/G
Call me an American hero
         D Em
Call me an American


Verse Two:
Em      D
 I'll leave, if and when you want me to
C/G                           D Em
When and if I've haunted you and if I miss you when you do not
       D
Real talk, do you read fuck-up in my walk?
 C/G
Do you see fuck-up on my face? do I mean anything at all?
   Em              D
Don't say you love me if you do got nothing
            C/G
Else to say to me when heaven is a dream
            D Em
And reality is fictional! fictional!
        D
Constantine and every host of christendom
   C/G                        D
What carried them, buried them, with every last one of us
Em           D
America is just a dream
      C/G
Just a dream, pretty thing
              D Em
Nothing's ever what it seems
       D           C/G
Just a dream, I still scream in my sleep,
             D  Em
in my sleep I still scream that


Chorus:
Em      D          C/G
  I would do anything for you to love me
         D  Em
Like I'm an American hero baby
   D
Star-spangled in my manner
    C/G                    D  Em
Shaking every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
      D          C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
          D  Em
There goes an American hero darling
     D
Call the press and tell 'em all
      C/G                      D  Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."


Post-Chorus:
Em            D         C/G
  If you really don't mind, take me as I am
                D   Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
      D        C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
            D Em
When I say I carry all my sins
        D          C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
         D Em
Call me an American hero

Call me an American hero
          Em  D  C/G
Call me an American hero
         D Em  D  C/G
Call me an American hero
         D Em  D  C/G
Call me an American hero