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Ed Sheeran – America Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsC5 Em/B Am7 C/G FCGC/EGadd4 CM7/BG/BGsus4

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[Intro]
C5

[Verse]
C5             Em/B        Am7
  Chicago on a Friday night
                     C/G
I was walking from a bar with
                  F
a friend of mine
                       C
We heard sirens and saw blue lights
               G
Right in front of us
C                   Em/B
  Seems a man took another
             Am7
  mans life
                   C/G
How can such a wrong ever
              F
make a right
                    C
What's worst by the end of the night
               G
There'll be something else,
somewhere else

[Pre-Chorus]
       F
As the sun sets over the hills
       C/E         G
In Los Angeles and New York
Somebody's tryna find a place
to sleep
    F
But daddy's lookin for daughter
            C/E       G
Down in New Orleans toniiiiiiiight

[Chorus]
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America

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[Verse]
C            Em/B            Am7
  Miami on a Saturday night
                        C/G
Drinks are flowing all around
                    F
and the pad is wide
                     C
Hope is low but the [?] are high
           G
Yeah, this town's alive, oh, na-na
C                    Em/B
  She only wanted to feel
             Am7
  some love
           C/G
Didn't get much when
                   F
she was growin up
                        C
Men tried but they were never
enough
             G
She needs somethin' else
or somewhere else

[Pre-Chorus]
       F
And in Vegas someone's gamblin
  C/E             G
A family dream or two roads down
Her mother lives in poverty
      F
she's hopin' her soldiers on a call
    C/E          G
And say mama I'm fiiiiine

[Chorus]
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America

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[Bridge]
      F
Every time I'm here,
    Gadd4
everywhere I go
      Am7
I can see the beauty,
      CM7/B
I can feel the hope
   F               Gadd4
Oh some folks try, some folks cry
Am7                G/B
Some folks die for this
thousand stripes

[Chorus]
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    G
just one more night in America

[Outro]
    C
Hey man,
     Em/B               Am7    Gsus4
just one more night in America

How to play America: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for America by Ed Sheeran on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

America by Ed Sheeran is centred on C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 12 chords: C5, Em/B, Am7, C/G, F, C, G, C/E, Gadd4, CM7/B, G/B and Gsus4.

The progression the song keeps returning to is G – C – Em/B – Am7 (V – I – iii – vi7 in C major). In solfa, that is soh – doh – mi – lah. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Good to know: F and Gadd4 are played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into them slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.