America
Paul Simon
Intro:
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(repeat)
C C/B
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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
D C G
And we walked off to look for
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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
G
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
D G D
Cmaj7
I've come to look for America."
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Laughing on the bus;
C
Playing games with the faces;
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C
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy;
F
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."
Em7 A Em7 A
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
D C G
And the moon rose over an
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F
open field.
C C/B Am7 Am7/G
F
"Kathy, I'm
lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
C C/B
Am
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
G
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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Cmaj7
All come to look for America