Chords
America

Key: G

Introduction:

difficulty
intermediate |||||
G      Em      G      C      G                          Em    G      C      G  
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh      Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh
G                                                            Em                    G                         C  
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
G                                                                 Em                      Em7  
I've got some real-estate here in my bag ooooo
Bm                                                      E7                                    Bm                         E7  
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
          A              G              D                    G         Em  
And walked off to look for America
G                                              Em                         G                              C  
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
G                                                      Em                         Em7  
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
D                                                                                                      Bm  
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
          A         D                 A                      G7+    G  
And I've come to look for America
F                                                                      G  
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
F                                                                                                                    G  
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
C                                                                                                         G                 Em         C  
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
G                                              Em                                      G                      C  
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
G                                                                 Em         Em7  
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Bm                                            E7                 Bm                            E7  
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
                     A         G         D                 G         Em  
And the moon rose over an open field
G                                            Em                                 G                              C  
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
          G                                                         Em                      Em7  
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
D                                                                                            Bm  
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
                     A      D                 A                      G7+  
They've all come to look for America
                     A      D                 A                      G7+  
They've all come to look for America
                     A      D                 A                      G7+  
They've all come to look for America
                     A      D                 A                      G7+    G      C  
They've all come to look for America
G      Em      G      C      G              C  
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh ooooooo