America by Paul Simon

[superdudeParticipant]

Intro:
/ C – – / C/B – – /
/ Am – – / Am/G – – /
/ F – – / – – – / – – – / – – – / (repeat)
[verse]
[chord C] “Let us be [chord C/B] lovers we’ll marry [chord Am7] our fortunes [chord Am7/G] together.” [F]
[chord C] “I’ve got some real [chord C/B] estate here in [chord Am] my bag.”
[Em7] So we bought a pack of cigarettes [chord A] and Mrs. [Em7] Wagner [chord A] pies
[/verse]
[chorus]
And we walked [chord D] off to [chord C] look for [chord G]
[chord C] [chord C/B] America. [chord Am7] [chord Am7/G] [F]
[/chorus]

[verse]
[chord C] “Kathy,” I said [chord C/B] as we boarded a [chord Am7] Greyhound [chord Am7/G] in [F] Pittsburgh
[chord C] “Michigan [chord C/B] seems like a dream to [chord Am] me now
[chord G] It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
[/verse]
[chorus]
[chord D] I’ve [chord G] come to look [chord D] for America.” [chord Cmaj7]
[/chorus]

[verse]
Bbmaj7
Laughing on the bus;
Playing [chord C] games with the faces;
[Bbmaj7] She said the man in the gabardine suit was a [chord C] spy;
[F] I said “Be careful his bowtie is really a
[chord C] [chord C/B] camera.” [chord Am7] [chord Am7/G] [chord D7sus2/F#] [Fmaj7]
[/verse]

[verse]
[chord C] “Toss me a [chord C/B] cigarette, I [chord Am7] think there’s one in my [chord Am7/G] [F] raincoat.”
[chord C] “We smoked the last one [chord C/B] an hour [chord Am] ago.”
[Em7] So I looked at the [chord A] scenery, she [Em7] read her [chord A] magazine
[/verse]
[chorus]
And the moon [chord D] rose over [chord C] an [chord G]
[chord C] [chord C/B] open [chord Am7] field. [chord Am7/G] [F]
[/chorus]

[verse]
[chord C] “Kathy, I’m [chord C/B] lost,” I said, [chord Am7] though I knew she [chord Am7/G] was [F] sleeping.
“I’m [chord C] empty and aching [chord C/B] and I don’t [chord Am] know why.”
[chord G] Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike:
[/verse]
[chorus]
They’ve [chord D]all [chord G]come to look for [chord D] America [chord Cmaj7]
[chord D] All [chord G] come to look [chord D] for America [chord Cmaj7]
[chord D] All [chord G] come to look [chord D] for [chord Cmaj7] America
[/chorus]
Intro

[david.michael.benjamin.jr@gmail.comKeymaster]

Awesome! Thanks for the tab!!! Do you want to try putting it in a “guitar tab” post, or shall I?

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