Paul Simon - America lyrics

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