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America - Paul Simon

Artist: Paul SImonGoChords.com

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1. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together,

2. Cathy, I said, as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg,

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1. I've got some real-estate here in my bag.

2. Michigan seems like a dream to me now.

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1. So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies,

2. It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw,

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1. and walked off to look for Ame.........................rica.

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2. and I've come to look for America.

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3. Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces, she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.

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3. I said, be careful his bowtie is really a camera.

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4. Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat, we smoked the last one an hour ago.

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4. So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine,

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4. and the moon rose over an o..................pen field.

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5. Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping,

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5. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.

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5. Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they've all come to look for America,

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all come to look for America, (*2)

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