America, Diatonic

by Paul Simon

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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. Wagners pics

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and 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 bow tie is really a camera

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Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my rain coat

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We smoked the last one an hour ago

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So I looked at the scenery, she read from 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're all come to look for America

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All come to look for America


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