America

in C Tenor

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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, 
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and Mrs. Wagner's pies--
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And walked off to look for America

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Kathy, I said, as we boarded a 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 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 gaberdine 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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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----
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All come to look for America----