Setting off for a new land

When we were young,

We usually didn't have got 

much real estate in hand.

So we set off for a new land 

to seek our fortune.

Now we are old,

We usually have got 

much real estate in hand.

So we set off for a new land 

to invest our fortune.

America - Simon & Garfunkel

 (Cover by Jack & Daisy)

"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 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 gone 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