America
Paul Simon
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Ooh ooh ooha ooh a ooh,
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Ooh ooh ooha ooh a ooh
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Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
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I’ve got some real estate here in my bag
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So we bought a pack of cigaretts, and Mrs. Wagner pies
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And walked off to look for America
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Kathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now
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It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saganaw
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I’ve come to look for America
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Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
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She said the man in the gaberdine suit was a spy
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I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
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Toss me a cigarette I think there’s one in my raincoat
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We smoked the last one an hour ago
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So I looked at the scenery,and she read her magazine
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And the moon rose over an open field -
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Kathy I’m lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
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I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why
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Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
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They’ve all come to look for America
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All come to look for America
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All come to look for America