America
Written by Paul Simon ©1968

Guitarists, capo up 2nd fret

C       C/B     Am      Am/G    F(add4) Em      A7      G
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D       Cmaj7   Bbmaj7  Am/F#   F       Dm                 
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C  C/B  Am  Am/G  F(add 4)

C          C/B          Am        Am/G        F(add4)
"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together"
C               C/B         Am         
"I've got some real estate here in my bag"
Em                      A7       Em              A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner Pies
       D      C      G          C  C/B   Am  Am/G  F(add4)
And we walked off to look for Ame  -  rica

C           C/B        Am         Am/G        F(add4)
"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 gone to look for America

Bbmaj7
Laughing on the bus
         Cmaj7
Playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7                                         Cmaj7
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F                                           C     C/B  Am  Am/G  Am/F#  F
I said, "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"

C          C/B        Am              Am/G       F(add4)
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
C              C/B          Am
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
Em                   A7    Em                A7
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
        D     C   G       C  C/B     Am   Am/G  F(add4)
And the moon rose over an o  -  pen field

C            C/B      Am              Am/G         F(add4)
"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

        D    G       D         Cmaj7
They've all gone to look for America
D    G       D         Cmaj7
All gone to look for America
D    G       D         Cmaj7
All gone to look for America

C  C/B  Am  Am/G  Dm  G (repeat and fade)

Last Revised: 22 October 2013