Moe Bandy - Americana guitar chord

Americana

By Moe Bandy

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I’ve traveled all around this country

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In my time I thought I’d seen it all

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But today I took a detour down a backroad

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Through a little town whose name I can’t recall

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There were old men on benches playin’ checkers

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Children playin’ hopscotch on the square

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And high above a statue of an unknown soldier

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Old Glory was waving in the air

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Suddenly I realized what I’d too long forgotten

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A chill rose up like mountains on my skin

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Overcome with the feelin’, I knew I was seein’

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America all over again

Chorus:

D G A

A—mer-icana

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Pictures of a people proud and free

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A—m-ericana, I’ll keep holdin’ to the dream

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You’re still what livin’ means to me

I knew to stop would throw me off my schedule

But I parked around behind the Five and Dime

There’s something bout a small town in the summer

Like a Norman Rockwell picture back in time

Kids were courtin’ at the Rexall soda fountain

Like we did before they built the shoppin mall

I saw so many reasons why I love this country

You know some things never really change at all

As I left the 2 lane road and pulled back on that superhighway

I thought of what I’d seen back in that town

And it hit me like a freight train

That a stones throw from the fast lane, America is still safe and sound

Chorus Twice