• Song:

    America Live

  • Artist:

    David Bowie

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)

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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