[Intro]
C Dm F Gsus4 G C Dm7 F
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Gsus4 G7 G
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[Verse]
C
They pulled in just behind the bridge
Dm F
He lays her down he frowns
F
Gee my life's a funny thing am I still too young
G C
He kissed her ■ then and there
Dm
She took his ring took his babies
F
It took him minutes took her nowhere
G F
Heaven knows she'd have taken anything but
[Chorus]
G C
■ She wants a young American
Dm F G G7
■ But she wants the young American
[Verse]
C
Scanning life through the picture window
Dm
She finds the slinky vagabond
F
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang
G7
But Heaven ■ forbid she'll take anything
C
But the freak and his type all for nothing
Dm Am Dm
Misses a step and cuts his hand but
F
Showing nothing he swoops like a song
Dm G F
She cries Where have all Papa's heroes gone ■
G
■ She wants a young American
[Chorus]
C Dm F G
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C
Well she wants the young American
C
All the way from Washington
Dm
Her breadwinner begs off the bathroom floor
F
We live for just these twenty years
G Dm G F
Do we have to die for the fifty more
G
■ He wants the young American
C Dm Am Dm
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F G
All right ■
Am
Well he wants the young American
Am7 F Am F Am
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[Bridge]
Em C G
Do you remember ■ your President Nixon
Am Em F
■ Do you remember the bills you have to pay
Em
Or even yesterday
D Em G7 G D
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[Verse]
D
Have you been the unAmerican
Em
Just you and your idol sing falsetto
G Asus4
'bout leather leather everywhere and
Em7 A
Not a myth left from the ghetto
D Em
Well well well would you carry a razor
Em
In case just in case of depression
G
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Em A
Blushing at all the AfroSheeners
D
Ain't that close to love
Em Em7
Well ain't that poster love
G
Well it ain't that Barbie doll
Em A
Her heart's have been broken just like you and
[Chorus]
G A D
All night you want the young American
Em G A A7
You want the ■ young American
D
You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
Em
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
G
Black's got respect and white's got his soul train
Asus4 A
Mama's got cramps and look at your hands ache
D Em G
I got a suite and you got defeat
G
Ain't there a man who can say no more
[Bridge]
Em7 A
And ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw
D
And ain't there a child I can hold without judging
Em Em7
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die
G
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces
Asus4
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
G
Break down and cry
[Chorus]
A7 D
I want the young American ■
Em Em7 G Am D
Young American ■ ■ young American I want the young American
Em G
I want the young American young American
A7 A D Em
I want what you want I want what you want
G
You want I I want you ■ I
Am A7 D Em G
And all I want is the young American ■ ■ ■
[End]
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