[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
And we walked off to look for America

[Verse 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

[Chorus]
I've come to look for America

[Verse 3]
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 I'm aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike

[Chorus]
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America

[Instrumental to fade out]

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