America Cifras

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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                        A7
   So we bought a pack of cigarettes
    Em            A7
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
 
    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
G
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
D    G       D        C Cmaj7 Am
I've come to look for America
 
 
MIDDLE 8
F                           Cmaj7
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
F                                            Cmaj7
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
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
   Em              A7
So I looked at the scenery
Em                A7
 She read her magazine
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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
G
Counting 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 |
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