America  -  Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

 

     C        Cmaj7           Am          C              F

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

    C                  Cmaj7      Am (Am⁷)

    I've got some real estate here in my bag."

    Em⁷                              A⁷                  Em⁷                A⁹

    So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies

    Em⁷  D         C     G                C   Cmaj⁷ Am Am⁷ F

    and   walked off to look for America.

 

2. "Kathy" I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

    "Michigan seems like a dream to me now

    G

    it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

     D   G          D         Cmaj⁷ C

    I've come to look for America."

 

      Bbmaj⁷             B^b              C

Rf: Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces

     B^bmaj⁷                                                        C

     she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy

      F                             Fmaj⁷                C

     I said:"Be careful his bowtie is really a cam'ra."

 

3. "Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat."

    "We smoked the last one an hour ago."

     Gm⁷                    A⁹        Em⁷               A⁹

     So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine

                D       C     G        C Cmaj⁷  Am⁷ C F

    and the moon rose over an open      field. _ _

 

                                                                      F   Fmaj⁷ Em⁷

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

      F   C

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

    G

    Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike

               D    G        D             Cmaj⁷ C

    they've all come to look for America

    D    G       D            Cmaj⁷  C  D    G         D           Cmaj⁷ C

   all come to look for America  _   all come to look for America ...