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's pies And walked off To look for America Kathy, 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 I've come to look for America. Laughing on the bus Playing games with the faces She said the man in the gabardine suit Was a spy I said Be careful, his bow tie 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 Kathy, I'm lost, I said Though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why. Counting the cars On the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come To look for America All come to look for America All come to look for America