| C | |
| They pulled in just behind the fridge |
| Dm | |
| He lays | her down-he frowns |
| F | |
| "Gee my life's a funny thing |
| G | |
| Am I | still too young" |
| C | |
| He kissed her then and there |
| Dm | |
| She took his ring, t | ook his babies |
| F | |
| It t | ook him minutes, took her nowhere |
| G | |
| Heaven knows she'dve taken anything |
| CHORUS: |
| F | G | |
| All n | ight-she want s the young American |
| C | Dm | |
| Youn | g American, young American |
| she wants the young American |
| F | G | |
| It's a | ll | right-but she wants the young American |
| Scanning life thru the picture window |
| She finds the slinky vagabond |
| He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang |
| Heaven forbid she'll take anything |
| But the freak and his type-all for nothing |
| Misses a step and cuts his hand |
| Showing nothing he swoops like a song |
| She cries "where have all papa's heroes gone?" |
| All night-she want s the young American |
| Young American, young American |
| she wants the young American |
| It's all right-but she wants the young American |
| All the way from Washington |
| He breadwinner begs of the bathroom floor |
| "Live for just these twenty years |
| Do we have to die for the fifty more?" |
| All night-he want s the young American |
| Young American, young American |
| he wants the young American |
| It's all right-but he wants the young American... |
| interlude: Am, G, F, G |
| bridge: |
| Am | G | C | |
| Do you remember y | our Pre | sident Nixon? |
| Am | G | F | |
| So you remember | the bills you | have to pay |
| E | |
| or even yest | erday? |
| break: D, G(ii), G(iii), D(ii), A(ii) |
| D | |
| Have you been the un-American |
| Em | |
| Just you and your id singing falsetto 'bout |
| G | |
| leather, leather everywhere and |
| A | |
| not a myth left from the Ghetto |
| D | |
| Well, well, well would you carry a razor? |
| Em | |
| In case, just in case of depression |
| G | |
| Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors |
| A | |
| Blushing at all the afro-sheeners |
| Ain't that close to love? |
| Well ain't that poster love? |
| Well it ain't that brbie doll |
| Her hearts have been broken just like you |
| G | A | |
| All | night-you want the young American |
| D | Em | |
| Young American, young American |
| you want the young American |
| G | A | |
| It's | all | right-you want the young American |
| You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler |
| Pimps got a Caddy-lady got a Chrysler |
| Black's got respect-white's got his soul train |
| Mama's got cramps and look at your hands hey |
| "I heard the news today, oh boy" |
| I got-suite and you got defeat |
| Ain't there a man-who could say no more |
| Ain't there a woman-I can sock on the jaw |
| Ain't there a child-I can hold without judging |
| Ain't there a pen-that will write before they die |
| Ain't you proud-that you've still got faces |
| and ain't there one damn song that can make me |
| break down and cry... |
| All night-I want the young American |
| Young American, young American |
| I want the young American |
| It's all right-I want the young American |