PINK HOUSES
John Mellencamp

RIFF:
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e|---|-------3------3-3-|-0------3------3-3-3-|
B|---|-------3------3-3-|-1------3------3-3-3-|
G|---|----0---------0-0-|-0------0------0-0-0-| (x?)
D|---|------------------|-2------0------------|
A|---|-0h2--------------|-3------2------------|
E|-3-|------------------|--------3------------|

INTRO: RIFF (x4)

VERSE 1:
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There's a black man, with a black cat
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Livin' in a black neighborhood
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He's got a interstate runnin' through his front yard
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You know he thinks he's got it so good

VERSE 2:
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And there's a woman, in the kitchen
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Cleanin' up the evenin' slop
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And he looks at her and says hey darlin'...
C                                 G
... I can remember when you could   stop a clock

CHORUS:
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Oh, but ain't America for you and me
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Ain't that America somethin' to see baby
G           C                   D
Ain't that America, Home of the Free
D                      C             RIFF (x2)
Little pink houses for you and me

VERSE 3:
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There's a young man, in a t-shirt
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Listenin' to a rock n' roll station
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He's got greasy hair, greasy smile
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He says Lord this must be my destination

VERSE 4:
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'Cause they told me, when I was younger
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Said boy you're gonna be president
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But just like everything else those old crazy dreams...
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... just kinda came and went

CHORUS:
G               C                  G 
Oh, well ain't America for you and me
G           C                   G
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby
G           C                   D
Ain't that America, Home of the Free
D                      C             RIFF (x3)
Little pink houses for you and me

SOLO:
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| G    |      | G    |     |

VERSE 5:
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Well there's people and more people
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What do they know, know, know
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Go to work in some high rise
      F                  C           G    G
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico

VERSE 6:
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And there's winners and there's losers
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But that ain't no big deal
G          F                          C
'Cause the simple man, baby, pays for thrills, the bills, ...
C       G
... the pills that kill

CHORUS: (x2)
G              C                  G 
Oh, but ain't America for you and me
G           C                   G
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby
G           C                   D
Ain't that America, Home of the Free
D                      C
Little pink houses for you and me

OUTRO: RIFF (x4)