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America, Diatonic

by Paul Simon · harmonica tab for C diatonic harmonica

2 bent notes238 notesHoles 2–8Diatonic

My harp is in

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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend

Let us be lovers, We'll marry our fortunes together

I've got some real estate here in my bag

So we bought a pack of cigarettes

And Mrs. Wagners pics

and walked off to look for America

Kathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

Michigan seems like a dream to me now

it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

I've come to look for America

Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy

I said be careful his bow tie is really a camera

Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my rain coat

We smoked the last one an hour ago

So I looked at the scenery, she read from her magazine

and the moon rose over an open field

Kathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping

I'm empty and aching and I don't know why

Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike

They're all come to look for America

All come to look for America