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 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

"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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