America

	  		
Intro 
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Ooh ooh ooh  a ooh a ooh 
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Ooh ooh ooh  a ooh a ooh 

Verse 
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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 pies 
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And walked off to look for America 

Verse 
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Cathy I said as we boarded the 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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And I've come to look for America 

Bridge 
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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 

Verse 
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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 

Verse 
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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 

Outro 
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Do do do do-oo do do-do-do 
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Do do do do-oo do do-do-do