America Sheet Music Simon and Garfunkel

Lyrics America Simon and Garfunkel

America

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 hitch-hike 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.
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«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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