G - Gsus4 - G - Gsus4 - G
G G7 C G/B
It was the town that made America famous
Am D G Gsus4
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell
G G7
Six traffic lights and seven cops
C G/B
And all the streets kept clean
Am D
The supermarket and the drug store
C Am G Gsus4 - G
And the bars all doing well
G7 C
Now they were the folks that made America famous
G/B Am D
Our local fire department
G Gsus4 G
Stocked with short haired volunteers
G7
And on Saturday night while America boozes
C G/B
The fire department showed dirty movies
Am G
The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams
F Em
Come to life on the movie screen
D
While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen
C
As he tries to hide his fears
G Gsus4 - G
And he wipes away his tears
Bb A
But something's burning somewhere
D Eb G - Gsus4
Does anybody care?
G G7 C G/B
We were the kids that made America famous
Am D G Gsus4
The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair
G G7
We were lazy long hairs dropping out
C G/B
Lost confused and copping out
Am D
Convinced our futures were in doubt
C Am G Gsus4 - G
And trying not to care
G7 C
We lived in the house that made America famous
G/B Am D G Gsus4 G
It was a rundown slum the shame of all the decent folks in town
G7
We hippies and some welfare cases
C G/B
Crowded families of coal black faces
Am G
Cramped inside some cracked old boards
F Em
The best that we all could afford
D
But still too fine for the rich landlord
C
To ever tear it down
G Gsus4 G
And we could hear the sound
Bb A
Of something burning somewhere
D Eb G - Gsus4 - G
Is anybody there?
G G7 C C/B
We all lived the life that made America famous
Am D G Gsus4 G
Our cops would make a point to shadow us around our town
G7
And we love children put a swastika
C G/B
On the bright red firehouse door
Am D
America the beautiful
C Am Em
It makes a body proud
D C C/B
And then came the night that made America famous
Am D G Gsus4 G
Was it carelessness, or someone's sick idea of a joke
G7
In the tinderbox trap that we hippies live in
C G/B
Someone struck a spark
Am G
At first I thought that I was dreaming
F Em
Then I saw the first flames gleaming
D
And heard the sound of children screaming
C G
Coming through the smoke
Bb A
And something's burning somewhere
D Eb G - Gsus4
Does anybody care?
G G7 C G/B
It was the fire that made America famous
Am D G Gsus4 G
The sirens wailed and the firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes
G7
And when the plumber yelled, "Come on let's go"
C G/B
They saw what was burning and said, "Take it slow,
Am D
Let 'em sweat a little, they'll never know,
C
And besides we just cleaned the chrome."
Said the plumber, "Then I'm going alone."
Em (7th fret) - Em (7th fret) - Em (7th fret) - Em (7th fret)
Em
Well, he rolled on up in the fire truck
Am
And raised the ladder to the ledge
G B7
Where me and my girl and a couple of kids
C Em7
Were clinging like bats to the edge
We staggered to salvation
Am
And collaped on the street
G B7
And I never thought that a fat man's face
C G
Would ever look so sweet.
G G7 C G/B
I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous
Am D G
And he smiled from the heart that made America great
G7
We spent the rest of that night in the home of this man
C G/B
That we'd never known before
Am D
It's funny when you get that close
C Am G Gsus4 - G - Gsus4 - G
It's kind of hard to hate
G G7 C G/B
I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous
Am D G
I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still tryin' to teach in school
G7 C G/B
Of the America that made America famous
Am G
And of the people who just might understand
G Em
That how together yes we can
D
Create a country better than
Am G
The one we have made of this land
F Em
We have the choice to make each man
D
Who dares to dream, reaching out his hand
C G
A prophet, or just a crazy God damn dreamer of a fool
D
Yes, a crazy fool
Bb A
And something's buring somewhere
D7 Eb
Does anybody care?
C
Is anybody there?
G
Is anybody there?
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