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America

Paul Simon

Intro: 

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"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together."

C                    C/B            Am
"I've got some real estate here in my bag."

Em7                                A        Em7                     A
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies

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And we walked off to look for

C  C/B  Am7  Am7/G   F

America.

C              C/B             Am7         Am7/G             F

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

C             C/B               Am
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now

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It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

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I've come to look for America."

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Laughing on the bus;

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Playing games with the faces;

Bbmaj7                                                       C
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy;

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I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a

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camera."

C               C/B         Am7                   Am7/G       F
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat."

C                      C/B             Am
"We smoked the last one an hour ago."

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So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine

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And the moon rose over an

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open field.

C              C/B         Am7              Am7/G                 F

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping.

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"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."

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Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike:

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They've all come to look for America

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All come to look for America

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All come to look for America

Intro