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America chords by Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon

  • D

  • F#m

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • A

  • G

  • B

    2
  • E

  • C

  • Em

Intro 1
D
F#m
Bm
A
D
G
D
G
D
F#m
Bm
D
G
Verse 1
D
F#m
"Let us be lovers,
D
Bm
D
G
we'll marry our fortunes to gether"
D
F#m
"I've got some real estate
Bm
here in my bag"
F#m
So we bought a pack of cigar
B
F#m
B
ettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
E
D
And we walked off to look
A
D
F#m
for America
Bm
D
G

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Verse 2
D
Bm
"Kathy," I said as we boarded
D
G
a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
D
Bm
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
A
It took me four days to
hitchhike from Saginaw
E
A
E
D
I've gone to look for America
Verse 3
C
Laughing on the bus
D
Playing games with the faces
C
She said the man in
D
the gabardine suit was a spy
G
I said, "Be careful,
D
his bowtie is really a camera"
Bm
D
Bm
G
Verse 4
D
"Toss me a cigarette,
Bm
D
G
I think there's one in my raincoat"
D
"We smoked the last one
Bm
F#m
an hour ago"
B
So I looked at the scenery,
F#m
B
she read her magazine
E
D
A
D
And the moon rose over an
Bm
open field
D
G
Verse 5
D
Bm
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said,
D
G
though I knew she was sleeping
D
F#m
I'm empty and aching and I
Bm
don't know why
A
Counting the cars on the New
Jersey Turnpike
E
A
E
D
They've all come to look for America
E
A
E
D
All come to look for America
E
A
E
D
All come to look for America
Outro 1
D
Bm
D
Em
A
D
Bm
D
Em
A
D
Bm
D
Em
A
D
Bm
Em
A
D
Bm
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