Young Americans Chords by David Bowie

[Intro]
C Dm F Gsus4 G C Dm7 F
■ ■  ■ ■     ■ ■ ■   ■
Gsus4 G7 G
■     ■  ■


[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
■ ■  ■ ■
                         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
■ ■  ■  ■ 
F         G
All right ■
                        Am      
Well he wants the young American
Am7 F Am F Am
■   ■ ■  ■ ■ 


[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
■ ■  ■  ■ ■


[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]