Americav9

America

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Words and music by Paul Simon

As peformed by Simon and Garfunkel on the album Bookends

Play the F's with your thumb hooked over the neck for the bass note...

Intro (play twice, 1st time with fill 1, 2nd time w fill 2)

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Capo III

C Cmaj9 Am7 C (G bass)

3/4, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm

F (with fills)

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Mmmmmm

1st time with fill 1

2nd time with fill 2

Verse 1

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C Cmaj9 Am7 C (G bass)

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Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes

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together

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I've got some real estate here in my bag

(with Fill 3)

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So we bought a pack of

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cigarettes and Mrs Wagner

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pies and walked off to

G C Cmaj9 Am7 C/G (w fill 4)

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look for America

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Verse 2 (play as verse 1)

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"Kathy," I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

"Michigan seems like a dream to me now." <-=AA

(w fill 3)

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It took me four days to hitchike from Saginaw

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I've come to look for A-mer

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ica

Bridge

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Laughing on the bus playing

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games with the faces

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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a

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spy

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I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a

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camera

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Verse 3 (play as verse 1)

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"Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat."

"We smoked the last one an hour ago."

So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine

And the moon rose over an open field.

Verse 4 (play as verse 2)

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"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping

"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."

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Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. They've

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All come to look for A-mer

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ica

Outro (repeat over and over) another guitar strums chords

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All fills Capo III

Fill 1

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Fill 2

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F C (verse1)

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Fill 3

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Am voices =AA Em7

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Fill 4

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haha enda en.... Johan Jahre Carlsen johancar@start.no