America P Simon 1968 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 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 bow tie 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.

`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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