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America – Simon & Garfunkel
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Written by: Paul Simon
From: "Bookends" (1968)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
capo: 2nd fret
play: C
key: D
time signature: 6/8
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[3/8]
G Am7 G/B
1 + 2 + 3 +
e|------------|
B|0---1---3---|
G|------------|
D|------------|
A|----0---2---|
E|3-----------|
[Outro]
C G/B Am7 Am7/G
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
e|----0---0---------------|----0---0-------0---0---|
B|----1---1-------3---3---|----1---1-------1---1---|
G|----0---0-------0---0---|----0---0-------0---0---|
D|----2---2-------0---0---|----2---2-------2---2---|
A|3-----------2-----------|0-----------------------|
E|------------------------|------------3-----------|
Dm Dm/C G7/B G7
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
e|----1---1-------1---1---|----1---1-------1---1---|
B|----3---3-------3---3---|----3---3-------3---3---|
G|----2---2-------2---2---|----0---0-------0---0---|
D|0-----------------------|------------------------|
A|------------3-----------|2-----------------------|
E|------------------------|------------3-----------|
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CHORDS
C x-3-2-0-1-0
C/B x-2-2-0-1-0
Am7 x-0-2-0-1-0
Am7/G 3-x-2-0-1-0
Am/F# 2-x-2-2-1-0
Dm x-x-0-2-3-1
Dm/C x-3-x-2-3-1
Fmaj7 1-x-2-2-1-0
G/B x-2-0-0-3-x
G7/B x-2-0-0-3-1
G7 3-x-0-0-3-1
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[Intro]
| C C/B | Am7 Am7/G | F | % |
| C C/B | Am7 Am7/G | F | % |
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
I've got some real estate here in my bag
Em7 A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
Em7 A7
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
| = LINK |
D C G Am7 G/B | C G/B | Am7 Am7/G | F | % |
And walked off to look for A - merica
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
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
[Middle 8]
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F
I said be careful
Fmaj7 | C C/B | Am7 Am7/G | Am/F# | Fmaj7 |
His bowtie is really a camera
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7 A7
So I looked at the scenery
Em7 A7
She read her magazine
| = LINK |
D C G Am7 G/B | C G/B | Am7 Am7/G | F | % |
And the moon rose o-ver an o-open field
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
C C/B Am7 | 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 | C |
They've all come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 | C |
All come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 | C |
All come to look for America
[Outro]
| C | G/B | Am7 | Am7/G | Dm | Dm/C | G7/B | G7 |
(repeat and fade)
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