America Simon & Garfunkel
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:41:04 +0100 (BST)
From: R P Kent
Subject: TAB: America by Simon and Garfunkel
Status: O
America
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Words and music by Paul Simon
As peformed by Simon and Garfunkel on the album Bookends
Tabbed and transcribed by Rich Kent (r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk)
Check out the Simon and Garfunkel homepage on http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d213ga=
Play the F's with your thumb hooked over the neck for the bass note...
Intro (play twice, 1st time with fill 1, 2nd time w fill 2)
[-----]Capo III
3/4[C], . , . , . [Cmaj9], . , . , . [Am7], . , . , . [C], [(G]. ,[bass)] . , .
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[Mmm] [mmm] [mmm] [mmm] [mmm]
F (with fills)
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[Mmmmmm]
1st time with fill 1
2nd time with fill 2
Verse 1
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[C], . , . , . [Cmaj9], . , . , . [Am7], . , . , . [C], [(G]. ,[bass)] . , .
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Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes
[F], . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
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together
[C], . , . , . [Cmaj9], . , . , . [Am], . , . , . , . , . , .
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I've got some real estate here in my bag
[Am](with Fill 3)[Em7]
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So we bought a pack of
[A7], . , . , . , . , . , . [Em7], . , . , . , . , . , .
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cigarettes and Mrs Wagner
[A7], . , . , . , . , . , . [D], . , . , . [C], . , . , .
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pies and walked off to
G C Cmaj9 Am7 C/G (w fill 4)
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look for America
[F], . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
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Verse 2 (play as verse 1)
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"Kathy," I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now." ve
[D], . , . , . [G], . , . , . [D], . , . , . [Cmaj7], . , . , .
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All come to look for A-mer
[D], . , . , . [G], . , . , . [D], . , . , .
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ica
Outro (repeat over and over) another guitar strums chords
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[C], . , . , . [C/B], . , . , . [Am7], . , . , . [C/G], . , . , .
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[Dm], . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
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All fills Capo III
Fill 1
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[F], . , . , . , . , . , . [C], . , . , .
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Fill 2
[----] F [-] C (verse1)
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Fill 3
---- - emulates
Am voices =AA Em7
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Fill 4
[----] [-]
[C/G], . , . , . [F], . , . , . , . , . , .
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* Rich Kent; email r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk ; http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d213ga *
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