The House I Live In chords

Keely Smith

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Intro: B7 Cdim A F#m Bm5-/7 E7/13 A E7/9- 

A        F#m Cdim E7 A   A7              
What is  America  to me    
  D      Cdim    A7M    C#m5-/7 
A name, a map, a flag I  see 
D        Cdim     C#m5-/7  F#7       
A certain word, "Democracy"    
D   F#m  Bm7 Bm5-/7 E7 
What is America to me 
    Fdim    A7M          D9      E7/13     A7M 
The house I live in  a plot of earth, a street, 
     D9    E7/13    A       F#m        C      Am7     A 
The grocer and the butcher,  all the people that I meet 
     D9      E7      A         F#m   D9    E7     F#m 
The children in the playground,  the faces that I see 
    B7     Cdim    A          F#m     Bm5-/7 E7/13   A 
All races,  and  religions that's America to me 
    Fdim    A7M          D9    E7/13   A7M 
The place I work in, the worker at my side 
    D9     E7/13    A           F#m            C      Am7        A 
The little town or city where my people lived and died 
     D9      E7         A           F#m   D9       E7         F#m 
The "howdy" and the handshake,  the air of feeling free 
    B7       Cdim     A6      A       F#m    D9   E7/13   A 
The right to speak my mind out that's America to me 
           D9      E       A             D9              E            A  
The things I see about me the big things and the small 
         Em7     A7          D                 Em7     A7     D 
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall 
      C#7              F#m                   C#7                        F#m 
The wedding and the churchyard, the laughter and the tears, 
            E                    B7             E               Edim            E7  
The dream that's been a growin' for twohundred thirty years 
    Fdim     A7M          D9            E7/13        A7M 
The town I live in, the street, the house, the room 
      D9     E7/13     A     F#m   C         Am7        A 
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom, 
      D9         E7         A                   D9                 E7            F#m 
The church, the school, the club house, the million lights I see 
      D9   Fdim     A      F#m  D9    E7  Fdim F#m 
But especially the people  that's America  to  me 
  D9   Fdim     A     F#m   D9   E7 Bm5-/7 D9   Dm6   A 
Especially the people that's America  to   me