Song: America Album: 3 Balloons Transcribed by: David Podradchik Note: For personal use/scholarship only; this song is quite scholarly... satire, that is. "And if you don't think so, fuck you." Chords used: DAEFAsus4 e----2-------0-------0-------2-------0--------| B----3-------2-------0-------2-------3--------| G----2-------2-------1-------2-------2--------| D----0-------2-------2-------4-------2--------| A------------0-------2-------4-------0--------| E--------------------0-------2----------------| D A E F#m Hey, hey what do you say? D A E F#m I come from a place called the U.S. of A. D A E F#m Ho, ho what do you know? D A E Hop in my car and let's go. A E Well this is a song for America, A E Home of the red, white, and blue. D A Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, D A Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline, A E A And if you don't love her fuck you. D A E F#m Beloved by all from Tikrit to Beijing, D A E F#m If the world were a school we'd be homecoming king. D A E F#m Worshiped by France and by North Vietnam, D A E Afghanistan thinks we're the bomb. A E Oh, this is a song for America, A E Home of the red, white, and blue. D A Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, D A Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline, D A SUVs, handguns, and US magazine, A E A And if you don't love her, fuck you. D A E F#m Our human rights record is something of note: D A E F#m We freed all our slaves and gave women the vote. D A E F#m Everyone's equal forever, always, D A E Unless you're one of them gays. A E Oh, this is a song for America, A E Home of the red, white, and blue. D A Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, D A Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline, D A SUVs, handguns, and US magazine, D A Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine, A E A And if you don't love her fuck you. D A E F#m To all war-torn nations, to those in turmoil, D A E F#m We'll help you kill despots, we'll help you drill oil, D A E F#m And if you don't want our help, that's ok D A E We're coming in anyway. A E Oh, this is a song for America, A E Home of the red, white, and blue. D A Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, D A Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline, D A SUVs, handguns, and US magazine, D A Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine, D A Crack cocaine, Abu Ghraib, and nicotine, D A Swindling CEOs getting off clean, D A Housewives all hopped up on amphetamine, D A Nipples get rated NC-17, D A FEMA and levees and Hurricane Katrine D F#m George Bush's great rolling war machine. D E A I think we're in trouble, don't you? D A E F#m It might seem I don't think our country's so great, D A E F#m But intolerance, bigotry, greed's what I hate. D A E F#m Most folks are honest and decent and true, D A E F#m Peaceful, compassionate, good through and through. D A E F#m That's what it means to be red, white, and blue, D E A And if you don't think so fuck you, D E A Asus4 If you don't think so fuck you.