Let us be lovers well marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs Wagner 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 bowtie 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
(original Whinchat recording from 1974)
(Pattern Music Ltd. - CBS Inc.1972)