America\" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). Produced by the duo and Roy Halee, the song was later issued as a single in 1972 to promote the release of Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.
The song was written by Paul Simon and concerns young lovers hitchhiking their way across the United States, in search of \"America\", in both a literal and figurative sense. It was inspired by a 1964 road trip that Simon took with his girlfriend Kathy Chitty. The song has been regarded as one of Simon's strongest songwriting efforts and one of the duo's best songs. A 2014 Rolling Stone reader's poll ranked it the group's fourth best song.
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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 we walked off to look for America.
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\"Kathy,\" I said as we boarded a 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 hitchhike from Saginaw
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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
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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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\"Kathy, 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
