C                           B
There's a new generation of poor
                      G
Faces clean and their eyes are pure
B                        G               C
Empty stomachs but their mouths are full oh
B                        Em  C B Em C
American proud, American poor

[Verse 2]
B                          Em   C
Send you a free book every year
B                 Em              C
Discount for your diagnosis, Dear
B                           Em      C
Give you pills to take away your fears
B                       Em
American poor, American here

[Chorus]
D                 C        G
Left my innocence in the sea
D                           Em
With all things that I made believe
B                  C
Shadow thing, it's just me
D             C       B
Make believe, make believe

[Instumental]
Em C B Em C

[Verse 3]
B                  Em       C
People are working silently
B                     Em       C
Sweatin' in their own salty sea
B                                   Em     C
Now they're setting fire out in the streets
B                        Em
American proud, American poor

[Chorus]
D                 C        G
Left my innocence in the sea
D                           Em
With all things that I made believe
B                      C
Shadow thing, and it's just me
D             C    B   Em
Make believe, make believe

[Instrumental]
Em C B Em B

[Verse 4]
B               Em
There can be no greater thing
C                      G
Than to love a stranger
B         Em           C
Can be no greater thing
B                        Em   C
American proud, American poor

[Verse 5]
B                    Em                C
Treat the people who serve us like shit
B                                 Em         C
There's nothing would ever really come of it
B                         Em                            C
It's fair if you say it's fair. It ain't me so it's not there
B                        Em
American proud, American poor

[Chorus]
D                 C        G
Left my innocence in the sea
D                           Em  G
With all things that I made believe
B                      C
Shadow thing, and it's just me
D             C    B   Em
Make believe, make believe