"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
"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
“America” foi incluída no quarto álbum de estúdio de Simon & Garfunkel, *Bookends*, lançado em 1968, e contou com a produção da dupla junto ao engenheiro Roy Halee.
Em 1972 a faixa foi lançada como lado B do single ao vivo de “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” para promover o álbum de compilação *Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits*.
Após alcançar boas posições nas paradas em julho de 1972, a canção foi promovida ao lado A do mesmo single e voltou às listas em novembro do mesmo ano.
Paul Simon escreveu a letra inspirando‑se numa viagem de carro de 1964 que fez com sua então namorada Kathy Chitty, descrevendo jovens amantes que atravessam os Estados Unidos em busca de “America”.
A canção é frequentemente citada como um dos maiores trabalhos de composição de Paul Simon e um dos melhores da dupla, sendo eleita, em pesquisa de leitores da *Rolling Stone* de 2014, a quarta melhor música de Simon & Garfunkel.
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