*intro*

Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together,
I've got some real estate in my bag,
so we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mr's Wagner's pies,
And we walked off, walked off, walked off, to look for America.

Kathy, I said, as we boarded the greyhound in Pittsburgh,
Michigan seems like a dream to me now,
Took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw,
They've all gone to look for Amer-America,
all gone to look for Amer-America,

Laughing on the bus, playing games with faces,
she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy,
I said be careful, his bow tie is really a camera.

"Kathy, I'm lost", I said,
though I knew she was sleeping,
Well, I'm empty and aching and I don't know why I'm,
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
And they've all gone to look for Amer-America,
All gone to look for Amer-America.

*instrumental*

"Kathy, I'm lost", I said,
Although I knew she was sleeping,
Well, I'm empty & aching & I don't know why I'm,
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
And they've all gone to look for Amer-America,
All gone to look for Amer-America,
All gone to look for Amer-America...