| 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 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
|
| And I’ve come to look for America
|
| Laughin' on the bus, playing games with the faces
|
| She said the man in the gaberdine 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
|
| I’m empty and I’m aching and I don’t know why
|
| Countin' the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
|
| They’ve all come to look for America, all come to look for America |