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America, Diatonic

by Paul Simon · posted by grey_air

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
4   5  -6  6 5      4    4 5  -5    5  4    -23 4
Let us be lovers, We'll marry our fortunes together

-2    4   4    4    5 5    5    7  7   7
I've got some real estate here in my bag

-7 -7  -7    -7 -6  -7  -6 6 5
So we bought a pack of cigarettes

5    55    5 -4    5
And Mrs. Wagners pics

-4   -4     5  -4  -4   6  -5b 5 -44
and walked off to look for   America

4 5   -6  6   5  4   4  5  -5   5 4     -2   -2  4
Kathy  I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh 

-2 44      4    5   5   5    7  7   7
Michigan seems like a dream to me now

-4   6  6   6    -7  -7  -7 -8     -8  -87 -7
it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

-6    -7   -7  -6  -8  7 -7 -6 6
I've come to look for   America


-6 6     -5  5   -4   -6-6    -6    6   -5  5 6
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces.

-6   -6   -6 -6  -6 -6  -6 -6 7    -6   6 -5  5
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy

-6 -6  -6  -7-6   -6  -7  -6  -6 -7-6  -7  7 6
I said be careful his bow tie is really a camera

4     5 -6 6 5 4    4   5    -5      5  4  -2  3    4
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my rain coat

-2   4     4   4    5   5  57  77
We smoked the last one an hour ago

-7 -7 -7    -6  6  -6 6 5    5   5    5     5  5 -4 5
So I looked at the scenery, she read from her magazine

-4  -4  -4    5   -5 6 -5b 5-4  4
and the moon rose over an open field

4  5   5   5   4  4     5    -5  5   4  -2    3 4
Kathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping

3   -2 4   4    4 5   5  5  7      7   7-7-6
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why

-8  7     -7  -7  -8 -8  -8  -8 -8  -8  7
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike

-7     -6    -7  -7 -6    -8 7-7-66
They're all come to look for America

-6   -7  -7 -6   -8 7-7-66
All come to look for America


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Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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