America - Simon & Garfunkel

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Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: D, E A D G B E

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America chords
Simon and Garfunkel  1968

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(Simon_%26_Garfunkel_song)

Capo II *
 
          
Ooh ooh ooh  a

            
 ooh a ooh,  o

            
oh ooh ooh  a 

      
ooh a ooh
             
Let us be love

            
rs, we'll marr

             
y our fortunes

   
 together
             
I've got some 

            
real-estate he

         
re in my bag
            
So we bought a

            
 pack of cigar

            
ettes, and Mrs

         
. Wagner pies
            
And walked off

            
 to look for A

        
merica

             
Cathy I said a

            
s we boarded t

             
he Greyhound i

  
n Pittsburg
             
Michigan seems

            
 like a dream 

      
to me now
             
It took me fou

              
r days to hitc

            
h-hike from Sa

   
ginaw
            
And I've come 

            
to look for Am

  
erica

            
Laughing on th

              
e bus, playing

 
 games with th

e faces
            
She said the m

             
an in the gaba

              
rdine suit was

    
 a spy
             
I said be care

         
ful his bowtie

             
 is really a c

         
amera

             
Toss me a ciga

            
rette I think 

             
there's one in

    
 my raincoat
             
We smoked the 

            
last one an ho

    
ur ago
            
So I looked at

            
 the scenery, 

           
she read her m

      
agazine
            
And the moon r

            
ose over an op

         
en field

             
Cathy I'm lost

            
, I said, thou

             
gh I knew she 

    
was sleeping
             
I'm empty and 

             
aching and I d

         
on't know why
             
Counting the c

              
ars on the New

        
 Jersey Turnpi

ke
            
They've all co

             
me to look for

  
 America
            
They've all co

             
me to look for

  
 America
            
They've all co

             
me to look for

    
 America

          
Do do do do-da

          
-do, do do do 


do-da-do 2x

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