America Lyrics

by Simon & Garfunkel

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's pies

And we walked off to look for


America

Cathy,

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 gone 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 bowtie 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


Cathy,

I'm lost,

I said though

I knew she was sleeping

And


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

About this song

"America" is a song performed by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, which they released from their fourth studio album, Bookends, in 1968.

Produced by the duo and Roy Halee, the song was later issued as a single in 1972 to promote the release of Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.

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