America Chords
America by Simon & Garfunkel is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, C/B, Am, C/G, F, Am7, Em7, A7, D, G, Am7/6, Cmaj7, Bbmaj7, Bb, Fmaj7, Am6, Dm and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C C/B Am C/G F C C/B Am C/G F
Ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh, ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh
C C/B Am C/G F
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
C C/B Am Am7
I've got some real-estate here in my bag
Em7 A7 Em7 A7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
D C G C C/B Am Am7/6 F
And walked off to look for America
C C/B Am C/G F
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
C C/B Am Am7
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
G
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
D G D Cmaj7 C
And I've come to look for America
Bbmaj7 Bb C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
Bbmaj7 C C/B Am C/G
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F Fmaj7 C C/B Am C/G Am6 Fmaj7
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
C C/B Am C/G F
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C C/B Am Am7
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em7 A7 Em7 A7
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
D C G C C/B Am C/G F
And the moon rose over an open field
C C/B Am C/G F
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
C C/B 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
They've all come to look for America
D G D Cmaj7 C
They've all come to look for America
C C/B Am C/G Dm F G G7
Do do do do-da-do, do do do do-da-do (repeat and fade)