America

1. "Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together

I've got some real estate here in my bag."

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So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies

and walked off to look for America.

2. "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."

R: 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 cam'ra."

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

"We smoked the last one an hour ago."

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So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine

and the moon rose over an open field.

4. "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 ...