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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5 Version 6 Version 8--------------------------------------------------------------------------- America – Simon & Garfunkel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Paul Simon From: "Bookends" (1968) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard capo: 2nd fret play: C key: D time signature: 6/8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINK [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-----------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [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)