Key: G
Introduction: G C9
G C9
Got a one-way ticket down a two way street
G C9
Got the wind in my hair and there's dust on my feet
Em7
I'm just trying
C
To make it in America
C9
Only thing to my name is an old t-shirt
G C9
Faded nine-teen eighty-five from a Stones concert
Em7
And I'm dying
C
To make it in America
G C9
And I'm singing the words to my favourite song
G C9
With the rag-top down and my glasses on
Em7
and I'm driving
C
Straight through America
D G
I wanna taste the sun
C
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
Em D
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
G C
I, I wanna show some skin
Em7
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
Am7 G
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
C
I, wanna make it in america
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make it in america
G C9
I can see my star sunset and vine
G C9
Gonna carve my name in the Hollywood sign
Em7
Yeah I gotta,
C
gotta make it in America
G C9
See me wearin a smile, even if I'm broke
G C9
I'll be singing the words from a song I wrote
Em7
And I called
C
it make it in America
D G
I wanna taste the sun
C
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
Em D
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
G C
I, I wanna show some skin
Em7
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
Am7 G
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
C
I, wanna make it in america
D
make it in america
Chorus
Em7 C
I can feel the sweat dripping down my face
Em7 C
I can hear my heart as it starts to race
Am7 C
Yeah some-times this world's such a lonely place
D
If I just push on I know that
Chorus
D G
I wanna taste the sun
C
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
Em D
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
G C
I, I wanna show some skin
Em7
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
Am7 G
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
C
I, wanna make it in america
D
make it in america