Intro 1
Bdim Bm F# Bm F# Bm F# Bm
C#
Liv ing a life,
Verse 1
F#
A#
without any future
D#m
Just unending appetite,
B
for petty amusement
F#
And you with your woes
A#
Youæ?³e food on the table
D#m
Youæ?³e cash in your pocket
B Bm
So why are you crying
F#
Prince of America,
A# D#m
hay does your tears run so rampantly
Are you not satisfied,
C# F#
in your world without context?
A#
Where everything's trivial,
D#m
and nothing has meaning
Bm
Not even the throne you're heir to
F# Bm F# Bm
Prince of the world
F# A#
So much to see, so much information
D#m
The people in Kosovo,
B
the villages burning
Bm B F#
Itæ?¯ all en tertainment,
A#
quickly forgotten
F# B Bm
It doesn't make any sense to me
B D#m
So why are you crying
A#
How could you know which
A#aug A# D#m A#
rung you stand on?
D#m
You never had to
A# D#m A# D#m
make the climb
A#
You never thought to look
Bm B Bm
beneath you
B C# D E
Ignoring the throne you're heir to
D Bm D F#m C# Bm E Bm
Prince of the world Prince of
F#
America
Outro 1
F# Bm D F# Bm F# C# F# E B E
Yeah
Peace!
Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Making money, losing time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Little sister making minimum wage
Living in a one-room jungle-monkey cage
Can't get over, she's almost dead
She may not be in the black
But she's happy she ain't in the red
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Freedom
Love
Joy
Peace
Jimmy Nothing never went to school
They made him pledge allegiance
He said it wasn't cool
Nothing made Jimmy proud
Now Jimmy lives on a mushroom cloud
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Freedom
Love
Joy
Peace
Boom, boom, boom, boom
The bomb go
Boom, boom, boom, boom
The bomb go boom
Teacher, why won't Jimmy pledge allegiance?
From the album
Around the World in a Day
Prince · 2025 · Track 0