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{title: Breakfast in America} {artist: Supertramp} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 73} {key: Cm} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [Cm] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [Cm] Take a look at my [Gm/Bb]girlfriend, [AbM7]she's the only one I got [Cm] Not much of a [Gm/Bb]girlfriend, I [AbM7]never seem to get a lot [G7] Take a jumbo across the water, [Cm]like to see America [G7] See the girls in California I'm [Fm7]hoping it's going to come [Bb]true But there's [Fm7]not a lot I can [Bb]do {end_of_verse} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [Cm]Could we have kippers for [Gm/Bb]breakfast, [AbM7]mummy dear, mummy dear? [Cm] They got to have 'em in [Gm/Bb]Texas, 'cause [AbM7]everyone's a millionaire [G7] I'm a winner, I'm a sinner, [Cm]do you want my autograph? [G7] I'm a loser, what a joker I'm [Fm7]playing my jokes upon [Bb]you While there's [Fm7]nothing better to [Bb]do {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Solo} (ad lib.) [G7] [Cm] [G7] [Cm] [Cm] [-] [Bb] [-] [Ab] [Ab] [-] [Cm/G] [-] [Fm7] [Bb] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 3} [Cm]Don't you look at my [Gm/Bb]girlfriend (girlfriend), [AbM7]she's the only one I got [Cm] Not much of a [Gm/Bb]girlfriend (girlfriend), I [AbM7]never seem to get a lot (what she got, not a lot) [G7] Take a jumbo across the water, [Cm]like to see America [G7] See the girls in California I'm [Fm7]hoping it's going to come [Bb]true But there's [Fm7]not a lot I can [Bb]do {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Outtro} (ad lib.) [G7] [Cm] [G7] [Cm] [G7] [Cm] [G7] [Cm] [Cm] [-] [Bb] [-] [Ab] [Ab] [-] [Cm/G] [-] [Fm7] [Bb] {end_of_part}