“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's pies,
And we walked off to look for America”

—  Paul Simon

America
Song lyrics, Bookends (1968)

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American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

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