INTRO
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C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
I've got some real estate here in my bag
Em7 A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
Em7 A7
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
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And walked off to look for A - merica
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
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 come to look for America
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F
I said be careful
Fmaj7 | C C/B | Am7 C/G | Am/F# | Fmaj7 |
His bowtie is really a camera
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C C/B Am7 | Am7 |
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7 A7
So I looked at the scenery
Em7 A7
She read her magazine
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And the moon rose o-ver an o-open field
C C/B Am Am7/G F | F |
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
C C/B Am7 | 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 | C |
They've all come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 | C |
All come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 | C |
All come to look for America
OUTRO
| C | C/B | Am7 | C/G | Dm | Dm/C | G7/B | G7 |