Simon & Garfunkel - America
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Capo: 2
Tuning: E A D G B E
Song: America
Artist: Simon and Garfunkel
Composer: Paul Simon
Album: Bookends
Tabbed by DJ ['DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com] 2nd Feb 2020
Original album track at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo2ZsAOlvEM
TIME SIGNATURE: 3/4 [Waltz time]
CAPO: 2nd fret [Will then sound in the original recorded key of D]
NOTE: 'The Concert in the Park' live version is a semi-tone higher
so Capo 3rd fret for that one.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
C = x32010 A4 = x02230 G4 = 320013
C/B = x2x010 Em = 022000 Cmaj7 = x32000
Am = x02210 Em7 = 022030 Bbmaj7 = x13231
Am/G = 302210 A7 = x02020 Fmaj7b5 = xx3200
F = 133211 or xx3211 D = xx0232 Dm = xx0231
F4 = 133311 or xx3311 G/A = x0xxxx Dm/C = x30231
Fmaj7 = 133210 G/B = x2xxxx G/B = x20003
G = 320003 G7/B = x20001
FOR TABLATURE OF OPTIONAL RIFFS IN BRACKETS - SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE
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[Intro]
C C/B Am Am/G F [F riff 1]
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm -mmm -mmm!
C C/B Am Am/G F [F riff 2]
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm -mmm -mmm!
[Verse 1]
CLet us be C/Blovers, we'll Ammarry our Am/Gfortunes to - Fgether,
F F4 F F F4 F C C/B Am [Am riff]
| /_/ / / | /_/ / / | I've got some real-estate here in my bag,
Am A4 Am Em Em7 A7 [A7 riff]
[Mmm- mm - mmm - mmm!] So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
...and EmMrs. Em7Wagner A7pies, and Dwalked Coff to Glook for A - me------ri - ca C C/B Am
Am/G F F F4 F F
| / / / | / / / | / / / | /_/ / / | / / / |
[Verse 2]
"CKathy,"I C/Bsaid, as we Amboarded the Am/GGreyhound in FPittsburg,
F F4 F F C C/B Am [Am riff]
| /_/ / / | / / / | Michigan seems like a dream to me now,
GIt took me four days to hitch-hike from GSag - in - aw,
DI've Gcome to Dlook for A - Cmaj7merica
[Bridge]
Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 [Cmaj7 riff]
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces,
Bbmaj7She said the man in the gabardine suit was a Cmaj7spy,
F Fmaj7b5 C C/B Am
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera-------------
Am/G D9/F# Fmaj7
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |
[Verse 3]
"CToss me a C/Bcigarette, AmI think there's Am/Gone in my Fraincoat!"
F F4 F F C C/B Am [Am riff]
| /_/ / / | / / / | "We smoked the last one an hour ago!"
Am A4 Am Em Em7 A7 [A7 riff]
[Mmm - mm - mmm - mmm!] So I looked at the scenery,
Em She read Em7her maga -A7zine, and the Dmoon Crose Gov- er an o-----pen field C C/B Am
Am/G F F F4 F F
| / / / | / / / | / / / | /_/ / / | / / / |
[Verse 4]
"CKathy, I'm C/Blost", I Amsaid, though I Am/Gknew she was Fsleeping,
| F/_F4/ / F/ | F/ / / | "I'm Cempty and C/Baching and AmI don't know why!"
GCounting the cars on the New Jersey GTurn - G/Apike,
G/BThey've Dall Gcome to Dlook for A - Cmaj7merica,
DAll Gcome to Dlook for A - Cmaj7merica, Dall Gcome to Dlook for A - Cmaj7merica-------!
[Coda]
C G/B Am Am/G
||: / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |
Dm Dm/C G7/B [G7 riff]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / :|| [Repeat- End on C]
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h = Hammer-on note p = Pull-off note / = Slide note up
b = Bend note up a semi-tone and release back again
[F Riff 1] [F Riff 2]
e |---------------|---------| e |---------------|----------------|
B |------------1--|--b3--1--| B |------------1--|--/3--p5-3------|
G |------0-h2-----|---------| G |------0-h2-----|------------5---|
D |--0-h3---------|---------| D |--0-h3---------|----------------|
A |---------------|---------| A |---------------|----------------|
E |---------------|---------| E |---------------|----------------|
[G Riff]
G G/A G/B C C/B Am Am/G
...look for A - me---------------------ri - ca!
e |--3----------|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|
B |--0----------|----1-1--1-1--|----1-1--1-1--|----1-1--1-1--|----1-1--1-1--|
G |--0----------|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|----0-0--0-0--|
D |--0----------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
A |--2---0---2--|--3-----------|--2-----------|--0-----------|--------------|
E |--3----------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--3-----------|
[A7 Riff] [Am Riff] [Cmaj7 Riff] [G7 Coda Riff]
e |---------------| e |---------------| e |--------------| e |-----------|
B |---------------| B |------------1--| B |--------------| B |-----------|
G |---------------| G |-------0-h2----| G |--p2-0-----0--| G |-----0-----|
D |------------0--| D |--0-h2---------| D |--------2-----| D |--------3--|
A |-------0-h2----| A |---------------| A |--------------| A |-----------|
E |--0-h2---------| E |---------------| E |--------------| E |--3--------|