Chords for Sting - America (Paul Simon) Philly 3-7-14

_ _ First of all, I'd like to say what an extraordinary honor it is to [N] share the stage with you. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
His songs are both humbling and inspiring for me.
He has been, whether he knows it or not, one of my teachers and mentors for many, many years.
_ _ Like I said, there are certain songs of Paul which will conjure up a time and a place instantly.
As soon as you hear them, you remember the first time you fell in love, or you fell out of love,
or you're setting off on a great adventure.
This next song, even though it was written a decade before this period,
always reminds me of a certain point in my life.
I was in my mid-twenties.
I came to this country for [Ab] the first time.
[B] _ _ [F] Me and the band, we [Ab] rented a station wagon,
[Bbm] and we traveled [Eb] right across [C] this country, staying in [B] shitty motels and playing to largely empty [D] clubs.
We were [N] _ going to Philadelphia, _ and we played on a club called [C] Franky's [Bb] Manor.
[G] We continued, [N] and there was one guy there.
_ _ Luckily, it was a guy called Ed Schalke, a very important teacher. _ _ _
[F] We started to play our records, and we owed him [Eb] a lot.
But, you know, we never knew [Bb] what was going to happen to us.
There was a certain anxiety.
This [Eb] song conjures up [Ab] that sense of wonder and that sensation. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Db] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [E] _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ [B] _ _ We'd humble pitch [A] the deck. _ _ _ _
_ [E] Shook him, seems like a [Dbm] dream to me.
Took [B] me four days to hitchhike from [Gb] Saginaw
[B] to look for a man
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ laughing on the bus,
playing [E] games with the faces. _ _ _
[D] She said the man in the gaffer's dais was [E] a spy. _ _ _ _
[A] I said, be careful, [A] this boom tie is really a camera.
[E] _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Toss me a cigarette, [Db] I [B] think there's one in my [A] room. _
_ _ _ _ [E] You smoked the last one, and [Dbm] I will go. _ _
[Abm] So I looked at the [Db] ceiling.
_ [Abm]
She read a [Db] magazine.
_ [Gb] And the [E] moon [B] was over her head.
[Abm] _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [Db] Gaffey, I must have [Dbm] said,
[B] though I knew she [A] was sleeping.
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Jenny came in, I don't know why. _
[B] Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike.
They all come to look for [E]
a man.
_ _ _ [Gb] All come to look for [B] a man. _ _
_ [E] _ [B] _ All come [Gb] to look for [E] a man. _ _ _
_ _ [B] All come [Gb] to look for a [E] man. _ _ _
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