America

Lyrics:

• "America"


• 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


• Cathy, I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburg
• Michigan seems like a dream to me now
• It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
• And I've come to look for America


• Laughin' on the bus, playing games with the faces
• She said the man in the gaberdine 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


• Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
• I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why
• Countin' the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
• They've all come to look for America, all come to look for America


• [Instrumental break]


• Countin' 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