*intro*l
let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together,
I've got some real estate in my bag,
so we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mr's Wagner's pies,
And we walked off, walked off, walked off, to look for America.
Kathy, I said, as we boarded the greyhound in Pittsburg,
Mitchigan seems like a dream to me now,
Took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw,
They've all gone to look for amer-america,
all gone to look for amer-america
Laughing on the bus, playing games with faces,
she said the man in the garberdian suit was a spy,
I said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera.
Kathy I'm lost, I said,
though I knew she was sleeping,
Well, I'm empty and aching and I don't know why I'm,
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
And they've all gone to look for amer-america,
All gone to look for amer-america.
*instrumental*
Kathy I'm lost, I said,
Although I knew she was sleeping,
Well, I'm empty & aching & I don't know why I'm,
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
And they've all gone to look for amer-america,
All gone to look for amer-america,
All gone to look for amer-america...