America - Simon & Garfunkel
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"Ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh, ooh ooh ooh a ooh a ooh"
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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
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Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
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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
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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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"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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They've all come to look for America
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They've all come to look for America
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"Do do do do-da-do, do do do do-da-do (repeat and fade)"
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