Key: C
Introduction:
D A/C# Bm A G
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
D A/C# Bm
I've got some real-estate here in my bag
F#m B7 B4 F#m B7
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
A D A Bm C#m Bm G
And walked off to look for America
D A/C# Bm A G
Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
D A/C# Bm
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
A
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Savannah
E A E D7+
I've come to look for America
C7+ D7+
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
C7+ D7+
She said the man in the garbadine suit was a spy
C7+ A7 D
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
D A/C# Bm A G
D A/C# Bm A G
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
D A/C# Bm
We smoked the last one an hour ago
F#m B7 B4 F#m B7
So I looked at the scenery, and she read her magazine
A D A Bm C#m D A/C# Bm G
An the moon rose over an open field
D A/C# Bm A G
Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
D A/C# Bm
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
A
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
E A E D7+
They've all gone to look for America
E A E D7+
They've all gone to look for America
E A E D7+
They've all gone to look for America