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Simon & Garfunkel

Version
studio
published by
frank78
Tone
A-
A+
Slide
A -> La
Video
[Capo on 2]
Chords
	 
[Intro]
C C/B Am G F Fsus4 F
Mmm mmmm mmm mmm mmm x2
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am/G F Fsus4 F
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
C C/B Am 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 C/B Am G F Fsus4 F
And walked off to look for America
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am/G F Fsus4 F
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C C/B Am 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 gone to look for America
[Bridge]
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
Fmaj7 C C/B Am G Am/F# F
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am/G F Fsus4 F
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C C/B Am Am
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7 A7 Em7 A7
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
D C G C C/B Am G F Fsus4 F
And the moon rose over an o-pen field
[Verse]
C C/B Am Am/G F Fsus4 F
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
C C/B Am 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
They've all come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7
All come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7
All come to look for America
[Outro]
C C/B Am G Dm Dm/C G7 (walk down pluck)