When We Dig For Gold In The Usa Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays522

When We Dig For Gold In The Usa by Amanda Jenssen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G, C, Em and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Am             G              Am 
Although we have run a thousand miles 
         G              C 
going to run a thousand more 

(we hear a voice thats callin') 
Am           G                  Am 
And when our journey rea  ed its end 
                G          C 
It always start over once again 

(we hear a voice that's callin') 
Am              G               C   
Telling us it's time to start a new 
                    G                       Am          
Telling us it's time for us to leave 
                    G                      Em      
Aheads of every sky and every sea 

  orus: 
        C                         G      
For every heart that we have forsaken 
    Am                           Em      
To all the ones who hope 
                 F        
Plowing on a road 
                  C                       Am                G      
Do you wanna' join us to the West? 
        C                      G           
For everyone that crossed the Atlantic 
    Am                          Em       
showed us that you can 
                  F         
It may be the end of our dreams 
    C                      Am               G        
waitin' to be saved 
    F                       G                      C      
When we dig for gold in the USA 


    Am                    G                       Am      
So many have tried but disappeared 
                G                       C      
But we have proven that we take 

(we have been all left to it) 
    Am                    G                              Am      
For in every house been called the home 
                 G                          C      
Sits all the people that still know 

(we have been all left to it) 
    Am                 G                            C      
Carry our compass through the storm 
                  G                      Am      
Petty all the promises been torn 
             G                           Em      
Agony we know shall soon be gone 

  orus: 
        C                          G      
For every heart that we have forsaken 
    Am                           Em      
To all the ones who hope 
                 F      
Plowing on a road 
                  C                       Am               G      
Do you wanna' join us to the west? 
    C                          G      
For everyone that crossed the Atlantic 
 Am                Em      
showed us that you can 
               F          
It may be the ends of our dreams 
    C         Am              G      
waitin' to be saved 
    F                        G                    C      
When we dig for gold in the USA 
    	

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