America Lyrics - 1964-1993 - Paul Simon

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 Wagner pies 

And we 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 bowtie is really a camera. 

Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat. 

We smoked the last one an hour ago. 

So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine 

And the moon rose over an open field. 

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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've all come to look for America 

All come to look for America 

All come to look for America 

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