America lyrics

"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's pies

And we walked off to look for America

"Kathy", I've said

As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

"Michigan seems like a dream to me now

It took me four days

To hitch-hike from Saginaw"

And I've come to look for America

Laughing on the bus

Playing games with the faces

She said the man with a gabardine suit

Was a spy

And I've 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 look at the scenery

She reads her magazine

And the moon rose over an open field

"Kathy, I'm lost", I've said

Though I knew she was sleeping

"I'm empty and aching

And I don't know why"

Counting the cars on a New Jersey Turnpike

They've all come to look for America

All come to look for America

All come to look for America