The Body Of An American Chords by The Pogues

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_ _ _ _ _ The Cadillacs [F] stood [C] by the house and the yanks [F] they were [C] within.
_ _ And the tanker boys they hissed goodbyes of war with a [G] pen. _ _
[C] When we turned and shook as we had a look in the room where the dead [G] man lay.
_ _ [C] Something Jim Dwyer made his last trip to the shores where his father's lay.
_ But fifteen minutes later [F] we had our first [C] taste of worship.
There was uncles giving lectures [F] on ancient [G] Irish history.
[F] The men all started telling [C] jokes and the women [G] lay a frisk.
[C] By five o'clock in the evening [F] every bastard [G] there was hissed.
[C] Fairly well [G] gone away there's nothing left to [C] say.
[F] Farewell to New York City [C] boys, to Boston [G] and PA.
[F] He took them out with a well-run [C] clout and they all hung [G] hard and sighed.
I'm a free [C]-born man [G] of the [C] USA.
He fought the champ in Pittsburgh and he slushed him to the ground.
He took on Tiny Tartanella [F] and only [G] went one round.
[F] He never had no time [C] for rags but drank up [G] Dicer Hard.
[C] But he never threw a fight when the fight [F] was right so they sent [G] him to the war.
[C] Fairly well [G] gone away there's nothing [C] left to say.
West Country Joe and an airing gone, [G] my love's in America.
_ [F] They're calling out the [C] rosary, Spanish wine [G] from far away.
[C] I'm a free-born man [G] of the [C] USA. _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] This morning on the harbor when I said goodbye at the_
I remember how I swore that [F] I'd come back to [G] you one day.
[F] And as the sunset came to [C] meet the evening [G] on a hill.
[C] I told you I'd always love you, I [F] always did, I [G] always will.
[C] Fairly well [G] gone away there's nothing left [C] to say.
[F] I'd say a ginger eyes as [C] blue as the water [G] in the bay.
[F] A big Jim Dorn, a man of war [C] who was never heard [G] to say.
[C] I'm a free-born man [G] of the [C] USA.
I'm a free-born man [G] of the [C] USA.
I'm a free-born man [G] of the [C] USA. _ _ _ _
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