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Song title:      America
Original Album:  Bookends

Words and Music by Paul Simon
Copyright © 1968 Columbia Records Music Inc.
Published by Columbia Music Publishing.`

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 3, if you want to play along with the boys.
Chords are relative to capo. Timing is 3/4 (Waltz time)


INTRO:
Notes:

Fill1

|------------------------|--------1p0-------------|
|-----------------1------|-3---------------3------|
|--------0h2-------------|------------------------|
|0h2---------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -|


Chords:
C     x32010    C/G 332010
Cmaj7 332000    F   x33211
Am    x02210


[play: 3/4| C | Cmaj7 | Am | C/G | F | % |]  [Fill1]

[play: 3/4| C | Cmaj7 | Am | C/G | F |]



VERSE1:
Chords:
C      x32010    F    x33211    G  320033
Cmaj7  332000    Em7  022030
Am     x02210    A7   x02020
C/G    332010    D    xx0232


| C       | Cmaj7       | Am      | C/G      | F | %
  Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together

| C           | Cmaj7     | Am       | % 
  I've got some real estate here in my bag


| Em7   | %              | A7           | Em7         | A7
    So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies,

  | D    | C    | G       | C  | Cmaj7 | Am | C/G | F 
And walked off to look for Ame - e  - erica.



VERSE2:
Chords:
C      x32010    F  x33211
Cmaj7  332000    D  xx0232
Am     x02210    G  320033
C/G    332010    


| C       | Cmaj7     | Am      | C/G        | F         | % 
 "Kathy," I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,

| C      | Cmaj7      | Am        | %
 "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 Ame-e -rica.



BRIDGE:
Bbmaj7 x13231    Fmaj7 x33210
Bb     xx0331    Cmaj7 332000
C      x32010    Am7   x02010
F      x33211    C/G   332010


| Bbmaj7          | Bb         | C
    Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces,

| Bbmaj7       | %        | %       | %        | C
    She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.

| F         | %  
  I said, "Be careful,

  | Fmaj7    | %      | C | Cmaj7 | Am7 | C/G | Fmaj7
His bow-tie is really a camera." 



VERSE3:
Chords:
C      x32010    F    x33211    G  320033
Cmaj7  332000    Em7  022030    A9 302000
Am     x02210    A7   x02020
C/G    332010    D    xx0232


| C       | Cmaj7    | Am            | C/G     | F 
 "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat." 

| C           | Cmaj7     | Am  | %
 "We smoked the last one an hour ago."


| Em7                | A7
    So I looked at the scenery, 

| Em7              | A9
    She read her magazine;

      | D  | C  | G     | C | Cmaj7 | Am7  | C/G | F
And the moon rose over an o-o-o-open  field.



VERSE4:
Chords:
C      x32010    F     x33211    D  xx0232
Cmaj7  332000    Fmaj7 x33210
Am     x02210    Dm7   xx0211
C/G    332010    G     320033


| C          Cmaj7  | Am   
 "Kathy, I'm lost," I said,

       | C/G        | F       | Fmaj7 | Dm7 | F  
Though I knew she was sleeping.

   | C       | Cmaj7    | 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 Ame-e-e-e-rica,

| D | G     | D       | Cmaj7    | C 
  All come to look for Ame-e-e-e-rica,

| D | G     | D       | Cmaj7    | C
  All come to look for Ame-e-e-e-rica



OUTRO:
Chords:
C    x32010    C/G  332010
C/B  x20010    Dm   xx0231
Am7  x02010


Guitar 1 plays this; Guitar 2 strums chords

  C                        C/B                      Am7
|-0----------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|-----------------1------|-----------------1------|-----------------1------|
|---------0--------------|---------0--------------|---------0--------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|-3----------------------|-2----------------------|-0----------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -|

 C/G                       Dm
|-----------------0------|------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------1----------|-----------------3------|-----------------3------|
|---------0--------------|---------2--------------|---------2--------------|
|------------------------|-0----------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|-3----------------------|
|-3----------------------|------------------------|------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -|


|-----------------1------|------------------------|
|-------------0----------|-0-------1-------3------|
|---------0--------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|-2----------------------|---------0-------2------|
|------------------------|-3----------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & -|


[repeat until fade]