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America – Simon & Garfunkel
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Written by: Paul Simon
From: "Bookends" (1968)
Tabbed by: Keener
Tuning: Standard
capo: 2nd fret
play: C
key: D
time signature: 6/8
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[Intro]
| C Cmaj7 | Am Cmaj7 | F | % |
| C Cmaj7 | Am Cmaj7 | F | % |
[Verse]
C Cmaj7 Am C F | F |
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
C Cmaj7 Am | Am |
I've got some real estate here in my bag
Em So we bought a pack of A7cigarettes
And EmMrs. Wagner's A7pies
D C G C Cmaj7 Am G | F | % |
And walked off to look for A - merica
[Verse]
C Cmaj7 Am C F | F |
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C Cmaj7 Am | Am |
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
GIt took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
DI've Gcome to Dlook for CAmCmaj7erica Am
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FLaughing on the bus playing Cmaj7games with the faces
FShe said the man in the gabardine suit was a Cmaj7spy
F . C Cmaj7 Am G F
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
[Verse]
C Cmaj7 Am C F | F |
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C Cmaj7 Am | Am |
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So EmI looked at the A7scenery
Em She read her magaA7zine
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D C G C Cmaj7 Am G | F | % |
And the moon rose o-ver an o-open field
[Verse]
C Cmaj7 Am C F | F |
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
C Cmaj7 Am | Am |
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
GCounting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
D G D C Cmaj7 Am | C |
They've all come to look for America
D G D C Cmaj7 Am | C |
All come to look for America
D G D C Cmaj7 Am | C |
All come to look for America
[Outro]
D G D C Cmaj7 Am | C | G |