• Song:

    So American

  • Artist:

    Portugal The Man

Intro: C5 , E5 (x2)


   C5
If pain was a color to paint on you
     E9+
Your heart would be the color blue.
     A5
Be a painting, hung up there til your body met your head.
D5
Which were made of silver.
C5
You are the one they call Jesus Christ.
    E9+
Who didn't know no rock and roll.
       A5
just a mission made of guns that they give boys in vietnam
D5
But they always told him

          F5         ( G5 ) C5
There's a madness in us all.
          F5         ( G5 ) C5
There's a madness in us all.



   C5
So who broke the rules?
E5
Who broke the rules?
A5
Who broke the rules?
          F5                           C5
They said every one of you will never try to lend a hand
         E5                          A5
When the policemen don't understand.
C5             F5
Boys, all you boys
                A5         G5
Think you're so American.
C5              F5
Girls, all you girls
                A5         G5
They're so American.




C5
He may not be born of this land
    E9+
But he was born of this world.
       A5
He was born of all the mothers
And the colors of our brothers
        D5
And the love that we sent him.

C5
You are the one they call Jesus Christ.
    E9+
Who didn't know no rock and roll.
      A5
There may not be a heaven,
Or a place in which to send you,
        D5
But you know in the end




          F5         ( G5 ) C5
There's a madness in us all.
          F5         ( G5 ) C5
There's a madness in us all.
(x2)


   C5
So who broke the rules?
E5
Who broke the rules?
A5
Who broke the rules?
          F5                           C5
They said every one of you will never try to lend a hand
         E5                           A5
When the policemen don't understand.
C5             F5
Boys, all you boys
                A5         G5
Think you're so American.
C5              F5
Girls, all you girls
                A5         G5
They're so American.



        F5                  C5
There's two eyes for every one of us
             E5                                A5 G5
But somebody got there first and took them all.

C5       F5
Man, oh man
                A5         G5
Think you're so American
C5       F5
Man, oh man
                A5         G5
Think you're so American

        F5                  C5
There's two eyes for every one of us
             E5                                A5 G5
But somebody got there first and took them all.

        F5                  C5
There's two eyes for every one of us
             E5                                A5
But somebody got there first and took them all.
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