America

First Aid Kit

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C   Am   C   G   Fmaj7        C   Am  C   G   Fmaj7
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh   Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh
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Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
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I've got some real-estate here in my bag ooooo
Em                     A               Em          A
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
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And walked off to look for America


[Verse 2]

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Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now
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It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
    D    G       D         C
And I've come to look for America
Fmaj7                         C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
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I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera


[Verse 3]

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Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
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We smoked the last one an hour ago
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So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
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And the moon rose over an open field


[Verse 4]

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Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
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I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
G
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
        D   G       D         C
They've all come to look for America
        D   G       D         C
They've all come to look for America
        D   G       D         C
They've all come to look for America
        D   G       D         C
They've all come to look for America


[Outro]

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Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh ooooooo