AMERICA 
 
 
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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 walked off to look for America. 
             
 
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  Kathy! 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 hitch-hike from Saginaw. 
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  I've come 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 my 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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  Kathy, 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. 
 
 
  All come to look for America. 
  All come to look for America...