(WMG owns this not me) (Lyrics) 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 we 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 theres 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, Im lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping I’m empty and aching and I dont know why Counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike They’ve all gone to look for america All gone to look for america All gone to look for america
@monkeyknife1 Same goes for todays politicans.
I blame the people of today,? more thought machines than
humans with a courageous loving hearts.
Saginaw !?
I remember this past summer I rode my bike about a mile up the road at about 7 or 8 to see the full moon. I sang this song as I rode up there, and when I got to the top of the hill where there was a huge field on either side of the road, I found myself singing, “And the moon rose over an? open field.” over and over.
@nitewingstudio No female backing !! Garfunkel sang the? backing voice, but it’s a guy !
im 19 n absolutley adore simon & garfunkle! my dad brought me up? with them n omg i cant get enuf of there songs! LOVE IT
They! .? . . are on . . . Pot!
*points repeatedly, brows furrowed*
The podcast is trying to write a song at least half? as epic as this. I don’t think it’s possible…
This song sounds like it fills the niche.? Like it is meant to be.
Kathy, Im lost, I said, though I? knew she was sleeping.
I’m empty and aching and I dont know why.
their lyrics cut right thru me.
@razzyboy246 Good thing? is, it’s still here for you to enjoy!
I drove 310,000 around America in cars ranging from Pintos to Aleros….what a great country! I will never? forget the Grand Canyon!
who? sang the female backing on this?
wnat to know something really special?
go to “maxine nzoz1983 sharon oneill”? and press “see all” for the 3 hidden comments.
@razzyboy246 Well, Razzyboy, it took me a long time to? realize that you ARE who you are, & “time” doesn’t have a thing to do with it; no matter how old you are, once you are age 14, you’re “complete,” & what you like, & can appreciate, is pretty set. You must not be a “follower,” but, instead, a “thinker,” & that means that you want more than just “what is popular”; perhaps you like the music of the 1960s because it was “raw,” & really SAID something; it was true ART, not computerized “noise.”
@squidster29yay You are so right! The kids of today are beginning to appreciate the great music of the 60′s and early 70′s. I really hated disco music! Someone said it was great and I asked him to give examples.I said the Bee Gees, but their earlier work in the 60′s was much better! I said OK to Earth, Wind and Fire. But honestly, that’s about it! And they said rock and? roll was just a phase! Rock and roll is here to stay! Even though the music of today is so bland and pop. Hate it!
@1955annemarie I really wish I could go back in time, I’m 15 and this is the only kind? of music for me nothing in the charts today even compares to this music
@keaster55 i just watched that today
there was no better time for music, and for some reason disco was considered to be acceptable. but what is still cherished today? that? good old honest rock.
@1955annemarie Ah, you also sound like a Beatles fan! Got to see them in concert in ’66, when I was 11. First saw them on Ed Sullivan when I was almost 9. Fell in love immediately with those adorable moptops. Mom went out the next day? and bought us the first album released in the US, Meet the Beatles. We twisted our guts out until it hurt so bad! Yea, the love and peace at that time was GREAT!
@keaster55 Great post, Keaster55!! Sounds like you’re my age, and were there in the middle of history, too!! Thanks so? much for the valuable information, and for that little “window” into our awesome past…what a shame we cannot take the youth of today back in time on a “Magical Mystery Tour” to share it all with them!!!
In the mid 60s, as America and American youth was in such an upheaval, and as disillusion with our life as American citizens took hold of our ability to see a future for our life that could really “ring true,” many thousands of kids just left their homes in “search of America” (Easy Rider) and to hopefully find themselves; to make? sense of what all around them that made no sense…
This amazing and haunting song personifies it all for me; the “tone” of the words speaking of our mutual search…
hmmmm ive listened to the? yes version over and over for a while then heard this. I guess im too attached to yes’s style and not so much S&G but still a nice song
@guidenredhawk Wow. I can’t believe i posted that. I must of been in one of? my defensive Yes moods, hahah. Sorry, i didn’t quite mean that. I do think it is better though. But thats my opinion…
me? neighbour had horse in the house
Very Beatlesque with the McCartney like bass lines, and the Ringo-like drum fills. I love this song, and think that Simon had a pretty good? grasp on America in 1968.
@pyschedelicpatti OK, I’ll give you Earth, Wind and Fire! There was a song from the 80′s? or late 70′s, not sure, that I liked. Something called Cosmic something or another, I wish I could remember the name to that song!