Simon & Garfunkel
America Capo 2
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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 cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
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And we walked off to look for America.
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Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
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Michigan seems like a dream to 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
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Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
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She said the man in the gabardine 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 the raincoat
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We smoked the last one an hour ago
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So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine
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And the moon rose over an open field
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Cathy 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
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