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Simon & Garfunkel - America
C C/B Am C/G
F
C C/B Am C/G F
Ooh ooh ooh a
ooh a ooh, ooh
ooh ooh a ooh
a ooh
C C/B
Am C/G
F
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
C
C/B Am
Am7
I've got some real-estate here in my bag
Em7
A7
Em7
A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
Em7 D C
G C
C/B Am Am7/6 F
And walked off to look for America
C C/B
Am
C/G
F
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
C C/B
Am
Am7
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
G
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
Em7 D G
D Cmaj7
C
And I've come to look for America
Bbmaj7
Bb
C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7
C C/B Am C/G
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F
Fmaj7
C C/B Am C/G Am6 Fmaj7
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
C
C/B Am
C/G F
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C
C/B Am
Am7
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7
A7 Em7
A7
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
Em7 D C
G C
C/B Am C/G
F
And the moon rose over an open field
C
C/B Am
C/G
F
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
C
C/B Am
Am7
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
G
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
D
G D
Cmaj7
They've all come to look for America
D
G D
Cmaj7
They've all come to look for America
D
G D
Cmaj7 C
They've all come to look for America
C C/B Am C/G
Dm F G G7
Do do do do-da-do, do do do do-da-do