America Chords
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Difficulty: | intermediate |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Key: | D |
Capo: | 2nd fret |
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Capo: 2nd fret
Key: D
[Verse]
C C/B Am C/G F C C/B Am C/G F
Ooh ooh ooh, a ooh a ooh, ooh ooh ooh, a ooh a ooh
C C/B Am C/G F
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
C C/B Am Am7
I've got some real estate here in my bag
Em7 A7 Em7 A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
Em7 D C G C C/B Am Am7/G F
And walked off to look for America
[Chorus]
C C/B Am C/G F
Kathy, I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C C/B Am Am7
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
G
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
Em7 D G D Cmaj7 C
And I've come to look for America
[Bridge]
Bbmaj7 Bb C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7 C C/B Am C/G
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F Fmaj7 C C/B Am C/G Am6 Fmaj7
I said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
[Verse]
C C/B Am C/G F
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
C C/B Am Am7
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7 A7 Em7 A7
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
Em7 D C G C C/B Am C/G F
And the moon rose over an open field
[Chorus]
C C/B Am C/G F
Kathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
C C/B Am Am7
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
They've all come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 C
They've all come to look for America
C C/B Am C/G Dm F G G7
Do do do do-da-do, do do do do-da-do (repeat and fade)
NOTE: At the end of each C C/B Am C/G F chord progression, there
is a small but important extra note. While fingering the F chord
(1 3 3 2 1 1), quickly hammer on and then pull off the sus note
(1 3 3 3 1 1). Do this twice each time.
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18 comments

I haven't tried it yet but if you listen to the song, at the end of the 2nd line, the F chord on together, they play with a suspended chord going back to F I think as in F - Fsus - F - Fsus - you can hear the timing on the song.
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i like it as is.....poetic interpretation......as you wish...be creative......great tab thank you kiss-fan.......kiss-fan? whats up with that??????
+4

capo 2 as well.
+3
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