Key: E
Introduction:
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"Let us be lovers,
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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. Wagner's pies,
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And walked off
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To look for Ame-e-e-e-erica.
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"Kathy," I said,
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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 Ame-e-e-e-rica."
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Laughing on the bus,
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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,
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His bowtie is really a camera."
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"Toss me a cigarette,
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I think there's one in my raincoat."
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"We smoked the last one an hour ago."
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So I looked at the scenery,
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She read her magazine
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And the moon rose over an o-o-o-open field.
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"Kathy, I'm lost," I said,
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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've all come
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To look for Ame-e-e-e-rica,
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All come to look for Ame-e-e-e-rica,
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All come to look for Ame-e-e-e-rica,