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                  STREETS OF AMERICA - Bad Religion
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By: Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.

 Intro:  (4x)
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 B---------7^9-9-9-----
 G--9-9-9-----------7^-
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 Rythm 1: (2x)
 E    C

 (w/ rythm 1)
 Desolate and without purpose
 Radiating from so many septic sources
 Forming the fabric of a wayward people
 Disappearing as the vestiges of our past

 Scratched like tartan into virgin soil
 A substrate for progress and disarray
 A spreading network of broken dreams
 Searching for a thoroughfare to take us away

 (chorus rythm)
 E           B C             D          A
 Just a little tale from the streets of America

 E            B C             D           A
 Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria

 E                G      D
 Trenchant, weary native sons

     E         B C                A      D
 Step back, step back and see the damage done

   C            G    D       C          D
 Meander to the horizon, the streets of America


 (w/ rythm 1 but w/o the Intro)
 Black, tarred concrete, pine for me
 Lying dormant for you and your country
 Hardened surface cracked within
 Catch the sweat from off of the chin

 Of men and women, senior and child
 Who look to you and your sterile miles
 And in there stares is bald dismay
 For what you promised led them astray

 (w/ chorus rythm)
 Just a little tale from the streets of America
 Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria
 Trenchant, weary native sons
 Step back, step back and see the damage done
 Meander to the horizon, the streets of America

 C             G         D        E
 Hard-cracked, daunting, lifeless veins

 C           G            D                  C     D     E
 False hope corridors to greener pastures is all that remains

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