The Voice of America                  copyright© 1991 by John Mark
                D (intro)
      D                                                       G   D
    Pardon me, did you say you're from America?
                   D           G                                              A   
    Did you bring cigarettes?  Could you spare one fo-r me?
       D                                                    G     D
    Please sit down you know we studied En-glish
                 D              G                        A
    And we only get to use it occai-sionall-y
   
    CHORUS 1:
           A(1/2II)                              G   D
    And we listen to the Voice of America
               A(1/2II)                                       D
    On the neighbor's radio hidden under the bed
            A(1/2II)                                    G     D
    It's "Yeah, yeah, yeah" and "Love her ma-dly"
               Bm                  G                        A
    Those songs really do say what must be said
                A(1/2II)                                       G   D
    There's nothing quite  like the Voice of America
       A(1/2II)                                                     D
    It comes from across the border, don't you know
       A(1/2II)                        G     D
    It stays on 'til right around mid-night
            Bm                   A                         D
    And takes you anywhere you'd want to go

                  D                                  G   D
    Can you tell us what it's like in America?
              D           G                    A
    It's a place that we won't ever see
             D                                G  D
    With cities that stretch out fore-ver
            D                           G              A
    And by the way what's it like to be free?

    CHORUS 1:

                D                                    G      D
    Well I guess you can tell this is an o-ld song
                 D                        G                         A
    Twenty five years on the downhill ta-kes i-ts toll
         D                                     G     D
    American radio's full of propaga-nda
            D                            G              A
    And we've got plenty of that o-f our own

    CHORUS 2:
         A(1/2II)                         G   D
    So now we listen to Air A-merica
              A(1/2II)                                      D
    On an old computer streaming over the web
            A(1/2II)                      G    D
    They really spe-ak truth t-o po-wer
            Bm          G                        A
    They really do say what must be said
                  A(1/2II)                                     G    D
    You can check the facts that are on Air America
         A(1/2II)                                D
    It's really easy to do, don't you know
           A(1/2II)                     G        D
    The truth just needs to b-e on the air
          Bm                  A                      D
    Because it's to the truth we want to go


   


   

   

1