JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "America" merupakan lagu First Aid Kit yang diluncurkan pada 2015 lewat mini album berjudul serupa.
Mini album tersebut memuat empat buah lagu yang seluruhnya berada di bawah naungan label Columbia Records.
Lagu "America" pertama kali dibawakan pada 1968 oleh grup duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Strange Beauty - First Aid Kit
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "America" dari First Aid Kit.
[Verse 1]
C Am C G F C Am C G F
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh
C Am C G F
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
C Am
I've got some real-estate here in my bag ooooo
Em A Em A
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
D G D C F
And walked off to look for America
[Verse 2]
C Am G F
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
C Am
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
G
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
D G D C
And I've come to look for America
F C
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
F C
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
F C Am C G F
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
[Verse 3]
C Am C G F
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
C Am
We smoked the last one an hour ago
Em A Em A
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
D G D C F
And the moon rose over an open field
[Verse 4]
C Am C G F
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
C Am
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
G
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
D G D C
They've all come to look for America
D G D C
They've all come to look for America
D G D C
They've all come to look for America
D G D C
They've all come to look for America
[Outro]
C Am C G F G
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooooooh ooooooo