Tonalità: D major
Verse 1
B
C#m
I was raised on a Jesus, who was white and prestigious,
G#m
B
said he never would leave our little country behind
C#m
Said the pledge of allegiance, said I’d never smoke weed,
B
and that my bible I’d read it when I couldn’t decide
C#m
But the sermons were telling me, Hell was a felony,
B
and Heaven’s the guilty plea that keeps me alive
C#m
So my friend went and shot himself, the Jesus he asked for help,
B
was probably somewhere else said, "Son get in line"
C#m
E
B
Verse 2
E
B
G#m
B
Oh lord can you hear it
C#m
The Amer ican spirit?
E
I don’t wanna go near it
B
You can smoke one outside
Verse 3
B
You can try to veneer it
C#m
The Amer ican spirit
E
Oh but something will smear it
B
Just you give it some time
Verse 4
B
C#m
I was born in a city, built on homes of the Cherokee,
E
B
and named after Muskogean words to describe
C#m
We hijack the narrative, say that it’s heritage,
B
tell them how good it is that history’s White
C#m
Leave out the stolen land, re place it with Dixieland,
E
B
and everyone claps their hands and sings its delight
C#m
You can face it or just forget, I ask for a cigarette,
E
B
you hand me the silhouette smoking a pipe
F#
E
B
Verse 5
E
B
Oh lord can you hear it
C#m
The Amer ican spirit?
E
I don’t wanna go near it
B
You can smoke one outside
Verse 6
B
You can try to veneer it
C#m
The Amer ican spirit
E
Oh but something will smear it
B
E
Just you give it some time
Interlude 1
G#m
B
E
F#
E
G#m
B
E
F#
Verse 7
B
E
B
G#m
I believed in a master plan, the natural good in man,
E
B
eventually shows its hand and takes home the pot
C#m
But I’m holding my hopes within, get fooled once get fooled again,
E
B
you’re bleeding American for something it’s not
E
Verse 8
B
Oh lord can you hear it
C#m
The American spirit?
E
I don’t wanna go near it
B
You can smoke one outside
Verse 9
B
You can try to veneer it
C#m
The Amer ican spirit
E
Oh but something will smear it
B
Just you give it some time
Verse 10
B
You can try to steer it
C#m
The American spirit
E
Oh, but something commandeers it
B
Like the wind in the pines
Verse 11
B
You can face it or just forget
C#m
I ask for a cigarette
E
You hand me a silhouette
B
Smoking a pipe
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