This file is part of a collection that (moreso than the rest of the site) are not meant to be detailed or accurate transcriptions of the original recordings. They're just some simple chord charts that I made for my own use, some of them my own arrangements.
- T-rev
"HERE IN AMERICA" by Rich Mullins www.kidbrothers.org
From A Liturgy, A Legacy, & A Ragamuffin Band (1993)
Written by Rich Mullins
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net
D /C# Bm /A G D
F# Bm /A G D
A/C# Bm F# Bm
D/A G A D
D /C# Bm /A G D
Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story
F# Bm /A G D
And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm
A/C# Bm F# Bm
Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come
D/A G A (D)
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
D Gmaj7 D/F# Em A
D Gmaj7 D/F# Em A
D D/A
(D/A) D /C# Bm /A G D
And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
F# Bm G D
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
A/C# Bm F# Bm
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
D/A G A D
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
Em A A7/G D/F# G
And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint
Em A D
The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints
Em A C G
And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see
Em D/F# Gmaj7 A7sus4
But everywhere I go I'm looking
D /C# Bm G D
And once I went to Appa---lachia for my father he was born there
F# Bm G D
And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children
A/C# Bm F# Bm
And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought
D/A G A D
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
Em A D/F# G
And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps
Em A D
Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance
Em A C G
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again
Em D/F# Gmaj7 A7sus4
But I am home anywhere if you are where I am
D /C# Bm /A G D
And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
F# Bm /A G D
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
A/C# Bm F# Bm
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
D/A G A7sus4 A (D)
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here.... in America
D Gmaj7 D/F# Em A
D Gmaj7 D/F# Em A
D Gmaj7 D/F#
F C/E Eb Bb/D F/C Bb F/A Gm F Em D
Transcribed 2026-08-20 by T-rev
More tab available at www.t-rev.net
xx0232 D
x4x232 Dmaj7/C#
x24432 Bm
x04432 Bm7/A
3x0033 G
244322 F#
x42220 A/C#
x00232 D/A
x02220 A
3x0032 Gmaj7
200232 D/F#
022000 Em
3x2220 A7/G
x32010 C
x02030 A7sus4
1332xx F
0320xx C/E
x6888x Eb
xx0331 Bb/D
x3321x F/C
x1333x Bb
x0321x F/A
3553xx Gm
1332xx F
0220xx Em
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