On the "Old friends" album, America is performed with a few small changes and it's just wonderful.
Tried to get it here, so I hope, you'll like it!
The song is played in this order:
- Intro (picked)
- Verse 1 (picked)
- Verse 2 (strummed)
- Bridge (slightly strummed)
- Verse 3 (picked)
- Verse 4 (strummed)
- Instrumental (strummed)
- Final (picked)
INTRO (2x)
C G6 a G F fill
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---I----------1--I--------3--I--------1--I--------0--I--------1--I----1----I----------1-I--3b4r3--1--I
---I-------0-----I------0----I------2----I------0----I------2----I------2--I------0h2---I------------I
---I----2--------I----0------I----2------I----0------I----3------I---------I--2h3-------I------------I
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count 1 2 and 3 1 2 a.3 1 2 a.3 1 2 a.3 1 2 a.3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
VERSES 1 AND 3 (chords picked)
C G6 a G F fill
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1. Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes to- gether
3. Toss me a cigarette I think theres one in my raincoat
C G6 a a
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---I----------1---I--------3---I--------1---I----1----I--------1--I-----1-----I
---I-------0------I------0-----I------2-----I------2--I------2----I-------2---I
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1. I've got some real estate here in my bag.
3. We smoked the last one an hour a - go
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e A7 e A7
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---I--------0---I---------0------I---------2--I----2----I--------0---I------0------I--------2--I-----2-----I
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1. So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs Wagner pies and we
3. So I looked at the scenery and she read a maga - zine and the
D C C G6 a G
---I--------2--I------------I----------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I from here strum
---I------3----I---------1--I---0----1----3--I--------1--I--------3--I--------1--I--------0--I F chord (2 takes)
---I-----2-----I-------0----I----------------I------0----I------0----I------2----I------0----I changing with F6
---I--0--------I-----2------I----------------I----2------I----0------I----2------I----0------I F6 is: 133311
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1. walked off to look for A - me - e - ri - ca.
3. moon rose o - ver an o - o - pen field.
VERSES 2 AND 4 (chords strummed)
2. C G6 a G F/F6 F/F6
Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound to Pittsburgh,
C G6 a a
Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
G G G G
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw,
D G D Cmaj7
I've come to look for America.
(Cmaj7 is: 032000)
4. C G6 a G F/F6 F/F6
Kathy, I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping,
C G6 a a
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.
G G G G
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
D G D Cmaj7 D G D Cmaj7
they've all come to look for America, all come to look for America,
D G D Cmaj7
all come to look for America.
BRIDGE
F Cmaj7
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces.
F Cmaj7
She said, the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.
F C G6 a G D/F# F F
I said, be careful, his boatie is really a camera.
(in this part, F is: x03210)
( D/F# is: 200230)
INSTRUMENTAL
Strum C G6 a G D C G (D is: xx0231) several times,
FINAL
do the Intro again and finally end it up with a C chord.
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