American Dream

©2020 Garrett Clevenger

C Bb G Bb x3

F C G

C Bb G Bb I’ve heard that you’re easy

C Bb G Bb and a little bit sleazy.

C Bb G Bb I’m hopin’ that you’ll please me

F C G and you’ll be all mine.

C Bb G Bb So come on over.

C Bb G Bb Show me what you got.

C Bb G Bb Any way you choose it,

F C G we’ll get wild for a while.

C Bb G Bb Not like back in high school

C Bb G Bb when you played me a fool.

C Bb G Bb Now you’re hangin’ at my place,

F C G but now I know what to do.

F I’ve become the American Dream

C your granddaddy died for.

F I guarantee that your kid

G will also face a war.

C Bb G Bb I just got back from Iraq

C Bb G Bb fightin’ in some war

C Bb G Bb that’s been wagin since I was a baby.

F C G The people there are so sore.

C Bb G Bb I spied them when I was driving

C Bb G Bb my deadly armored Humvee.

C Bb G Bb The people there seem kind of weird

F C G and they’ve never been free.

C Bb G Bb But I got a gun and I’m gonna kill ‘em

C Bb G Bb for annoying me.

C Bb G Bb That’s right I’m living what’s called

F C G the American Dream.

F Come on over baby,

C I’ll show you what I got.

F A military scholarship.

G Now it’s my shot!

C Bb G Bb I’m working a nightshift

C Bb G Bb at a gas station.

C Bb G Bb I got a bit of PTSD.

F C G That’s my situation.

C Bb G Bb If you try to rob me

C Bb G Bb I’ll pull at my gun,

C Bb G Bb even if you’re not Iraqi

F C G or are the Chosen One.

C Bb G Bb I’ve got a silver bullet

C Bb G Bb loaded in my gold gun.

C Bb G Bb And I don’t take no bullshit

F C G from anyone.

F I’m livin’ the American Dream.

C Come over. I’ll show you what I mean.

F It might be a little obscene

G but it’s the real thing.

C Bb G Bb I don’t take no for an answer.

C Bb G Bb I am a yes kind of man.

C Bb G Bb I’m positive right to the core.

F C G I do the best that I can.

C Bb G Bb That don’t mean that I’m perfect.

C Bb G Bb I ain’t no saint.

C Bb G Bb I once aimed a gun at my mama.

F C G I made her faint.

C Bb G Bb So give me some lovin’ baby.

C Bb G Bb Then I’ll let you leave.

C Bb G Bb You know you wanna get some

F C G American Dream.

F I’ll make it right tomorrow

C if I get through tonight.

F I can’t promise the next day

G I won’t be gunning to fight.

C Bb G Bb American Dream.

C Bb G Bb American Dream.

C Bb G Bb American Dream.

F C G It’s the real thing.

Jam