Pink Houses Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Pink Houses chord chart and guitar lesson by John Mellencamp. This is a great song and fortunately the chords can be made pretty simple.
This song does feature one barre chord, the F chord, but, as with any song that uses the pesky F barre chord, you can always use the Fmaj7 chord as a substitute.
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Pink Houses Guitar Chords:
Pink Houses Strumming Patterns:
Easy Strumming Pattern:
1 + 2+ 3 + 4 +
DU DU DU DU
Other Strumming Pattern:
1 + 2+ 3 + 4+
DU U U DU
The split measure rhythms are hopped, meaning in the |C G| and |F C| measures, the second chord changes1 on an up strum.
Intro Lick over the G Chord:
e|---------------------3----|
B|---------------------3----|
G|----------------0----0----|
D|---------------------0----|
A|---------0h2---------2----|
E|----3----------------3----|
Pink Houses Guitar Lesson:
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Pink Houses Chord Chart:
Intro: G |C G| x4
Verse:
G G G G
There's a black man with a black cat livin' in a black neighborhood
G G
He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard
| F C| G G
You know he thinks that he's got it so good
G G G G
And there's a woman in the kitchen cleanin' up the evenin' slop
F C
And he looks at her and says, "Hey darlin', I can remember when
G G
you could stop a clock."
Chorus:
C G C
Oh but ain't America for you and me Ain't that America
G C D D
Somethin' to see baby Ain't that America home of the free
C C
Little pink houses for you and me
G |C G| x2
Verse:
G G G G
Well there's a young man, in a t-shirt, listening to a rock and rollin' station
G G
He's got greasy hair and a greasy smile,
|F C| G G
he says "Lord this must be my destination"
G G G G
Cause he told me, when I was younger, sayin' "Boy ya gonna be President"
F C G G
But just like everything else, those crazy dreams, kinda came and went
Chorus:
C G C
Oh but ain't America for you and me Ain't that America
G C D D
Somethin' to see baby Ain't that America home of the free
C C
Little pink houses for you and me
Instrumental Break:
G |C G| (x3)
F C G G (x4)
Verse:
G G G G
Now there's people, and more people, and what do they know know know
G |F C| G
Go to work in some high-rise, and vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico!
G
(ooooh yeah)
G G G G
And there's winners, and there's losers, but that ain't no big deal
F C G G
Cause the simple man, baby, pays for thrills, with bills, and pills that kill
Chorus:
C G C
Oh but ain't America for you and me Ain't that America
G C D D
Somethin' to see baby Ain't that America home of the free
C C G G
Little pink houses for you and me Ooo
C G
Ain't America for you and me
C G
Ain't that America something to see
C D
Ain't that America home of the free
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
C C
Yeah, Little Pink Houses for you and me
G | C G| (x4)
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