America Simon and Garfunkel Intro: C C/B Am C/G F C C/B Am C/G F Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together C C/B Am I've got some real estate here in my bag Em7 A9 Em7 A7 So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies D C G C C/B Am Am/G F And walked off to look for Amer - ica C C/B Am C/G F Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburg C C/B Am Michigan seems like a dream to me now G It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw D G D Cmaj7 I've come to look for Am- er - ica Bbmaj7 C Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces Bbmaj7 C She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy F Fmaj7 C C/B Am C/G Am/F# Fmaj7 I said be careful his bow tie is really a camera C C/B Am C/G F Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat C C/B Am We smoked the last one an hour ago So I looked at the scenery, and she read her magazine An the moon rose over an open field C C/B Am C/G F 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 C They've all come to look for Am - er - ica D G D Cmaj7 C All come to look for Am - erica D G D Cmaj7 C All come to look for Am - erica Outro: C C/B Am C/G F G C Am/F# base-fret 0 frets 2 0 2 2 1 0 define: C/G base-fret 0 frets 3 3 2 0 1 0