What Made America Famous Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G]

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It was the town that [G]made
America [C]famous[G]
The [Am]churches full and the

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[D]
kids all gone [G]to hell

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Six traffic lights and [G]seven cops
[C]and all the streets kept c[G]lean
The [Am]supermarket and the drug

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[D]store
and the [C]bars all [Am]doing [G]well

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Now [G]they were the folks that
made America [C]famous
[G]Our

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[Am]local fire depart[D]ment stocked
[G]with short haired volunteers

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And on [G]Saturday night while America
boozes the [C]fire
Department showed dirty [G]movies, the

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[Am]
lawyer and the grocer
Seeing [G]their dreams

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[F]come
to life on the movie screens
[Em]While the

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[D]plumber hopes
that he won't be seen

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As he [C]tries to hide his fears and he wipes
away his [G]tears
But somethings [Gm]burning [Am]somewhere
[G]Does anybody car[Eb]e?[G]

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[G]We were the kids that made America [C]famous
[G]The

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[Am]kind of kids [D]that long since drove
our [G]parents to despair

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We were [G]lazy long hairs dropping our,
[C]lost confused, and copping [G]out

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Con[Am]vinced our futures [D]were
in doubt and [C]trying [Am]not to c[G]are

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We lived [G]in the house
that made America [C]famous
[G]It was a run[Am]down slum, the

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[D]
shame of all the [G]decent

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Folks [G]in town, we hippies and
some welfare cases
[C]Crowded families of coal

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black [G]faces,
[Am]cramped inside

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Some [Am]cracked old board[G]s,
the [F]best that we all could afford
[Em]But [D]still to nice for

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[D]the rich
landlord to [C]tear it down
[Am]And we could hear [G]the sound

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of
[Gm]something burning [Am]somewhere
[G]Is anybody

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[Eb]there?[G]

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[G]We all lived the life that made
America [C]famous
[G]Our

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[Am]cops would make [D]a point to shadow
[G]us around our town

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[G]And we love children put a Swastika on
the [C]bright red firehouse [G]door

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[Am]America, the [D]beautiful,
it [C]makes [Am]a body [Em]proud

[Verse 28]
[Em]
And then came the [E]night that
made [Em]America fam[E]ous

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Was it [Am]carelessness or [D]someone's
sick [G]idea of a joke

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In the [G]tinder box trap that we

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hippies lived in
[C]Someone struck [G]a spark at [Am]first
I thought that I was dream[G]ing

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[F]Then I saw the first flames
[Em]gleaming and [D]heard

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The sound of children [C]screaming
coming through the [G]smoke
And [Gm]somethings burning

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[Am]somewhere
Does any[G]body

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[Eb]care?

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[G]Oh it was the fire that made America [C]famous,
[G]the sir[Am]ens wailed
And the [D]firemen stumbled

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[G]sleepy from

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their homes and the
[G]Plumber yelled, ?Come on let's go?,
[C]but they saw what was burning
And said, ?Take it [G]slow, let 'em

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[Am]sweat a little,
they'll [D]never know?

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And be[C]sides, we just cleaned the chrome,
said the plumb[G]er
?Then I'm going [Em]alone?

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[Em]
Well he rolled on up in the fire
truck and [Am]raised the

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Ladder to the ledge where [G]me
and my girl and a [B]couple of kids
Were [C]clinging like bats to the

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[Em]edge,
[Am]we s[Em]taggered to salvation

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[Am]Collapsed on the street [G]and I never
thought that a fat [B]man's face

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Would [C]ever look so [G]sweet

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[G]
I shook his hand in the scene
that made America [C]famous
[Em]And [Am]a smile from the heart that

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[D]
made America [G]great

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We spent the rest of that night [G]in the
home of a man
[C]I'd never known before

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[G]it'[Am]s funny
when you [D]get that close
It's [C]kind of [Am]hard to

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[G]hate

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I went to [G]sleep with the hope
that made America [C]famous
[G]I had the

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[Am]kind of a dream that
[D]maybe they're still

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[G]Trying to teach in school of the America
that made America [C]famous
[Em]And of the

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[Am]people who just might
[G]understand that [F]how together
Yes [Em]we can cre

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[D]ate a country

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better than the one
[Am]We have made of this land,[G]
we [F]have a choice to make
Each [Em]man who

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[D]dares to dream
reaching out his hand

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[C]A prophet or just a crazy god
damn dreamer of a fool
[G]

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Yes a crazy [D]fool

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And [Bb]something burning somewhere
[Am]

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[D]
Does anybody [Eb]care? Is
anybody [C]there?

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[C]Is anybody there?