America

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[Verse 1]
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Let us be lovers we'll marry our 
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fortunes together
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I've got some real estate here 
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in my bag
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  So we bought a pack of 
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cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
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And walked off to look for 
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America

[Verse 2]
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Cathy I said as we boarded a 
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Greyhound in Pittsburgh
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Michigan seems like a dream to 
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me now
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It took me four days to hitchhike 
from Saginaw
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I've gone to look for America

[Bridge]
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   Laughing on the bus, playing 
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games with the faces
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She said the man in the gabardine 
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suit was a spy
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I said be careful his bowtie is 
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really a camera

[Verse 3]
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Toss me a cigarette I think 
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there's one in my raincoat
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We smoked the last one an hour 
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ago
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  So I looked at the scenery, she 
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read her magazine
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And the moon rose over an o-pen 
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field

[Verse 4]
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Cathy I'm lost I said though I 
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knew she was sleeping
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I'm empty and aching and I don't 
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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