America chords by Lucy Wainwright Roche

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C    Am  C    F
Ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh
C    Am  C    F
Ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh

Verse:
C            Am    C     F
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
C             Am     Am7
I've got some real-estate here in my bag
Em           A7       Em     A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
  D   C   G    C  Am Am7 F
And walked off to look for America

Verse:
C         Am     C      F
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburgh
C           Am     Am7
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
G                    Em
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
  D  G    D     Cmaj7 C
And I've come to look for America

Bridge:
Bb              C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
Bb           C          Am C
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F           Fmaj7       C  Am C Am  F
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera

Verse:
C           Am      C     F
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C             Am  Am7
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em         A7    Em      A7   Em
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
    D  C  G    C  Am  C F
And the moon rose over an open field

Verse:
C         Am       C      F
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
  C           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
All come to look for America
D  G    D     Cmaj7
All come to look for America

Outro:
C Em Am C    F
Do do do do-oo do do-do-do
C Em Am C    F      C
Do do do do-oo do do-do-do