Founding Fathers Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays509

Founding Fathers by Will Hoge is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, G, D, F#m and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			A 
I am an American man 
    G     D      A 
I vote I work I pray 

I get up at the crack of dawn 
       G        D        A 
Every day but Saturday 

I used to have a pension, 
       G         D         A 
Yeah I used to have a plan 

My friends mean the world to me 
               G         D               A     
We just don't mean that much to the man 
D                   A 
I still love this country 
     D               A       D 
Even in its darkest days 
                      F#m                   D 
But I bet our founding fathers are turning over  
E             A 
in their graves 

Corporations count as people 
But people don't count as much 
And Wall Street don't concern themselves 
With the middle class and such 
We bailed ?em out the first 
Because they?re too damn big to fail 
If I would been that bad with my own cash 
Somebody would have sent my ass to jail 

Chorus 
Lead 
Chorus 

Four years in the army 
And then four years back in school 
But still I can't find a job 
And now I feel just like a fool 
Democrats, republicans 
Who?s to blame it's hard to tell 
Sometimes I think we?d be better off 
If they all just went to hell 
Oh?let?em all go to hell 

Chorus 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante