🎸 American Land chords by Bruce Springsteen (Ver. 2)

AMERICAN LAND

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What is this land of America, so many travel there
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I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there
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Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
     G    C      D    G      G / C / D / G
And we'll make our home in the American land

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Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees
G                             D
And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees
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Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands
    G     C      D    G      G / C / D / G
If you make your home in the American land

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There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
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Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
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There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
    G    C      D    G      G / C / D / G
Who'll make his home in the American land

G    C   G   G   D   G   D   G / C / D / G

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I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
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I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire
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We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands
  G    C      D    G      G / C / D / G
And made our home in the American land

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There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
G                             D
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
G                           D
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
     G    C      D    G      G / C / D / G
Who will make his home in the American land

C    G   C   C   D   C   G   G / C / D / G

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McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, the Zurrilis too
G                          D
The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews
G                    D
Come across the water a 1000 miles from home
   G        C       D     G
with nothing in their bellies and a fire down below



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They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin
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They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
G                            D
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now
  G              C     D       G
The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down

G                 C            G
There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
G                             D
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
G                           D
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
     G    C      D    G
Who will make his home in the American land (3 times)


D    G   D   D   A   D   A   D / G / A / D
C    G   C   C   D   C   G
G / C / D / G (3 times)