Pink Houses Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays867

Pink Houses by John Mellencamp is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, F, C and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G   
There's a black man with a black cat livin' in a black neighborhood   
G   
He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard   
                        F                       C             G 
You know he thinks that he's got it so good   
  
And there's a woman in the kitchen cleanin' up the evenin' slop   
       F                                    C                  
And he looks at her and says, "Hey darlin', I can remember when    
             G   
   you could stop a clock."   

G                 C                   G   
Oh but ain't that 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   
                       C   
Little pink houses for you and me   
G G C G G F C G   
There's a young man in a t-shirt   
Listenin' to a rockin' rollin' station   
He's got greasy hair, greasy smile   
He says, "Lord this must be my destination."   
'Cause they told me when I was younger   
"Boy you're gonna be president."   
But just like everything else those old crazy dreams   
Just kinda came and went   
   
:|| Chorus   
G G C G G F C G    
Well there's people and more people   
What do they know know know   
Go to work in some high rise   
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico   
Ooh yeah   
And ther's winners and there's losers   
But they ain't no big deal   
'Cause the simple man baby pays for the thrills, the bills,    
     the pills that kill   
   
:|| Chorus  
    	

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