America chords by Simon & Garfunkel
Intro 1
D
F#m
Bm
D
G
G
D
F#m
Bm
D
G
G
Verse 1
D
F#m
Let us be lovers,
Bm
D
G
we'll marry our fortunes together
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F#m
Bm
I've got some real estate here in my bag
F#m
B
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
F#m
B
and Mrs. Wagner's pies
E
D
A
And we walked off to look for
D
F#m
Bm
A
Ame- rica
G
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Verse 2
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Bm
Cathy, I said as we boarded
D
G
a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
D
F#m
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
Bridge 1
C
Laughing on the bus,
D
playing games with the faces
C
She said the man
D
in the gabardine suit was a spy
G
I said, be careful,
D
his bow-tie is really a camera
F#m
Bm
A
E
G
Verse 3
D
F#m
Toss me a cigarette,
Bm
D
G
I think there's one in my raincoat
D
Bm
We smoked the last one an hour ago
F#m
B
So I looked at the scenery
F#m
B
She read her magazine
E
D
And the moon rose
A
D
F#m
Bm
A
over an o- pen field
G
Verse 4
D
F#m
Cathy, I'm lost,
Bm
D
G
I said though I knew she was sleeping
D
And I'm empty and aching
Bm
and I 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
Outro 1
E
A
E
D
All come to look for America
E
A
E
D
All come to look for America
D
F#m
Bm
D
Em
A
D
F#m
Bm
D
Em
A
[Repeat and fade]
America
Simon & Garfunkel
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