America
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1. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together,
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I've got some real-estate here
in my bag.
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So we bought a pack of
cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies,
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F
and walked off to look
for Ame.........rica.
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F
2. Cathy, I said, as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg,
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Michigan seems like a dream to
me now.
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It took me four days to
hitch-hike from Saginaw,
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and
I've come to look for America.
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Laughing on the bus, playing
games with the faces,
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she
said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.
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I said, be careful his bowtie
is really a camera.
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3. Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in
my raincoat,
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we
smoked the last one an hour ago.
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So I looked at the
scenery, she read her magazine,
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and
the moon rose over an o.......pen field.
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F
4. Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping,
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I'm empty and aching and I
don't know why.
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Counting the cars on the New
Jersey Turnpike,
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they've
all come to look for America,
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all
come to look for America,
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all come
to look for America,
+ C - G - Am - G - Dm - F - G - G7 (2x) ….
(orig.
= capo
2nd; midi = capo 3rd)(Simon & Garfunkel)