Me Mine Lamentations chords by American Aquarium

[Intro]
C
 
[Verse 1]
C
Me and mine have worked this land
    F                            C
As long as my grandfather can remember
  C
Plowin' soil, diggin' holes
   F                                  C
Haulin' coal, to strippin' down the timber
      G                    F        C
Then they showed up, they shut us down
 G                   F        C
Same old story, the same old town
       C                              F
"It's like we don't matter", momma said
                          C
"At least that's how it seems"
                G          F
And that's the day I woke up
                    C
From the American dream
 
[Verse 2]
 C
What are you supposed to do,
          F
When the God you're prayin' to
             C
Up and goes missin'?
  C
Leaves a trail of unpaid bills
  F                        C
Broken homes and opioid addiction
               G
And then a politician shows up
   F       C
Promisin' that
 G
He'll return the jobs
            F                     C
That God himself could not bring back
C
Fool me once, shame on you
F                        C
Fool me twice, shame on me
                  G         F
Yeah, that's the day I gave up
                  C
On the American dream
 
[Chorus]
           Dm
These lamentations
 F                             C
Are gettin' too damn hard to sing
            Dm
These lamentations
 F                        C
Are gonna be the death of me
 
[Verse 3]
C
You see, me and mine, we ain't the kind
    F                      C
To sit around idle and complain
        C
We're tough as nails, mean as hell
     F                            C
Without an ounce of quit in our veins
          G                  F         C
But the harder we work, the more they take
      G                          F       C
Till all the good is gone, for goodness sake
             C
Neither the left or the right
           F                            C
Are gonna fight for folks stuck in between
     G                 F
The way things really are
               C
The American dream
 
[Chorus]
            Dm
These lamentations
F                         C
Are gonna be the death of me
           Dm
These lamentations
F                             C
Are gettin' too damn hard to sing
            Dm
These lamentations
F                         C
Are gonna be the death of me
           Dm
These lamentations
F                             C
Are gettin' too damn hard to sing
            

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