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America Live

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AMERICA
This is what I hear out of the David Bowie live cover of this song written by 
Simon and Garfunkel at The Concert For New York in 2002.
Some improvement is surely possible for some parts (thinking particularly of the 
ending of the break part « laughing on the bus »).
I believe it should be done in a ¾ rythm.  
        CM7C FM7F
Intro:         (X2)
              C             C         F          F
    Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together.
    C                   Am               Am
    I've got some real estate here in my bag.
    Em                     A               Em            A
    So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner's pies,
        D      C           G       CM7         C        FM7        F
    And walked off to look foooor America.
    C                     C                        F               F
    Kathy, I said, as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
    C                     Am                   Am
    Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
    G                       G
    It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw.
    D    G       D    CM7     C       FM7    F
    I've come to look foooor America.
Break:  Fm  
   Dm
      Laughing on the bus,
   Am
      Playing games with the faces,
   Dm
      She said the man in the gabardine suit
            Am       C      C7
      Was a spy.
FM7
    I said, "Be careful,
        F          CM7      C       FM7     F
    His bow tie is really a camera.
    C                    C               F         F
    Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat.   (She said:)
    C             Am          Am
    We smoked the last one an hour ago.
      Em                A       Em                A
      So I gazed at the scenery, she read her magazine;
           D   C      G             CM7        C     FM7     F
   And the moon rose oveeeeeeeer an open field.
    C                 C                F             F
   "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
      C            C            Am          Am
    "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
    G            G
    Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
       D   G       D    CM7     C
The've all come to look foooor America,
    D   G       D    CM7     C
    All come to look foooor America,
    D   G       D    CM7       C
    All come to look foo-ooor America.
FM7       F      CM7

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AMERICA
This is what I hear out of the David Bowie live cover of this song written by 
Simon and Garfunkel at The Concert For New York in 2002.
Some improvement is surely possible for some parts (thinking particularly of the 
ending of the break part « laughing on the bus »).
I believe it should be done in a ¾ rythm.  
Intro:  CM7  C  FM7  F (X2)
Break:  Fm  
FM7       F      CM7

America Live Chords by David Bowie

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