Simon & Garfunkel - America Lyrics

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An essential cross country road trip song. “Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they’ve all come to look for America.” Chokes me up every time. Imagining a sea of cars and we’re all seeking the same thing. Maybe one day we’ll find it.

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Hoy 6 enero 2020,esta cancion como todas de ellos. ..grandiosa

The only thing that could make this song more perfect is a hotter level on the bass. Joe Osborn is credited with this bass line, but it sounds more like Larry Knechtel. For starters, the part is played with fingers (Larry), not a pick (Joe). Larry played the Hammond B3 on this track. Perhaps he laid the bass line down as an overdub. Unfortunately both Larry and Joe are gone now. We can't ask them. Does anyone know for sure?

FOR AN AMERICA THAT ISN'T THERE ANYMORE

Hoy, 4 de enero de 2020; lo digo: Esta canción es grandiosa.

What Number Is This Song On The "Bookends Album?"

ken karwoski track 3

Chilly VR, Thank You!

A song without a rhyme and such Incredible poetry! In my mind I am suddenly back to those days after my divorce, from my wife, my child and the military. Struggling with my self worth and looking for a place to belong I hitchhiked across country, taking temp jobs for money. I even lived in a restaurant for a week. Throwing myself at God. "Cathy I'm lost" was very real. But in retrospect, I was experiencing life on the edge gathering a treasure of memories and learning to trust. The struggle continues. Happy New Year.

Great song about ... travel.. road trips really.

Just so everyone knows, it was Arthur Garfunkel *NOT* Paul Simon who was the Genius behind Simon & Garfunkel songs. Just compare the duo's songs to Paul Simon's solo work. Paul Simon had small man's disease, he beat Carrie Fisher, he's an ass.

I used to think this song was deep.
Now it's just pretentious.

You are arrogant .It's not important.

@Rhoda Knight
You're not Important.
That's just arrogant.
😃

It's not deep or pretentious, just a pretty song. Paul Simon is generally pretentios though.

Just re-watched Almost Famous for the millioneth time. Once of the greatest movies ever.

This song should be longer.

I first heard this song in a Bernie Sanders commercial in January or February 2016 and have listened to it many times since then.

Through out most of the 1960s, and 70s, the youth of America hitch hiked everywhere. Me and my best buddy, we hitch-hiked to Ann Arbor, Michigan, from Cleveland, Ohio,....we visited friends who had just began their first college year at The University of Michigan, and the city of Ann Arbor, was a outdoor rock concert, premier location. The city of Ann Arbor, was laid back, & into the whole Hippie, marijuana, LSD, & emerging counter culture. Hippies, long hairs, who drove VW Beetles and VW micro- busses, back then, were always "cool", and would pick you up, take you to your destination, & most likely feed you, and get you high. "Communes" sprouted up outside of many college towns. Inevitably you'd be directed to them, to crash for a night or week. Shared their food, music, drugs,....love and good vibes. Strangers were nice back then, and offered so much help and love. Great times.

Great song, reminds me of my youth. I was coming of age in 1968 - 69, graduating junior high, next onto high school,...our town was very liberal, almost everyone was protesting the Vietnam War,. culture was shifting in a major way. Our class of 1969 -70, in high school shut down the school in protest of the Vietnam War, the draft and in protest of the strict rules of the high school. The younger teachers joined our protest. The school administration bowed to our demands, and the dress code was abolished, paddling of rude students was ended, class times, were modified, to begin later, and end later. We adopted a school plan similar to colleges of the day. Students could teach classes, classes could be held outside or at neighborhood locations, like a museum or library. We could invite non-teachers to lecture, offer classes in life skills. We could invite controversial newsmakers of the day to speak,...like Abby Hoffman, & the poet Alan Ginsberg, to speak or run seminars. Good times.

This reminds me of when my brother and I were kids and we would go up to the school yard and sing every song off of the Bookends album. I lost my brother in '86, and it still makes it hard to revisit the idyllic times we had. This was my very favorite on the album.

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🎶Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike THEY'VE ALL COME TO LOOK FOR AMERICA🎵

Simply... a masterpiece

love this classic song, love the end melody of this too, reminds me of being at church.

I've got some real state here in my bag!

Perfection

59 living in Vegas Michigan seems like a dream to me now

IT took me 4 days to hitchhike from Saginaw

its still top song to me

Back in the early 80's, after I got out the army, I used to. cross the country on the old Trailsway bus service. How beautiful America was back then.

And the moon rose over an open field and I put the pie down ....

431 people were lost and Kathy didn't help them find the like button 'cause she was sleeping!

Oh the good ol’ days....Hitchhiking, Smoking on the Bus, music created with real instruments not sound systems.

Feel the Bern 20/20

Fuck it I wish I could count the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike!

Out of this world

Its one of the 100 Essential Tracks 70 from sony corporation

I love this song so much! ❤️❤️🦊🐰

Esta música é linda demais.

Hal Blaine's giant tom tom drum set.

I've listened to this song for over forty years - it's perfect.

“I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera...” Paul Simon saw a lot, back then

I agree with so many comments below – thank you, people! This is such a powerfully emotive number that still moves me to tears, 51 years later. I'd like to pay tribute to the late and very great Joe Osborn, who left us only last year at 81, and his contribution to this number, along with rhythm section team-mate Hal Blaine. It’s a truly outstanding piece of song-writing, both compositionally and lyrically, with performances that are also outstanding, but none more so than the bass-work, particularly Joe’s high register work, and even more particularly those melancholy double stops – just sublime. His note choices are often less than obvious, and display an incredible harmonic and melodic sensibility and ability to make huge leaps on the fingerboard that would take me a great deal of planning and preparation, but I believe just fell within his improvisational capability. As brilliant a number as it is in all other regards, it’s the brilliance of the bass-work that elevates it to sublime and very moving indeed.

Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching, but I don't know why


Running out of cigarettes will do that to you.

I wish I could have seen America before it devolved to the sewer it is now.

how can 420 people not like this song?

The America we fought so hard for in the 60's we must renew!!

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping.

One of my favorite lines as well, the guy will go downas the most underrated musos of all time

Sam Harper poetry !

Stuart McKern
Who’s underrated 😳

Oh Lordy. I was there . 🙄😆
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https://youtu.be/RiFqlDagTaU

I could listen to that intro for hours

Song beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Love this team!!!

❤️this Song so mutch ❤️

Since 2016 I cannot hear this song without thinking of Bernie Sanders and his movement to make the American Dream a reality for all Americans. Love it!

I love that song. It reminds me of the seventies. My era.

such a great song

I am from Pittsburgh and my sister's name is Kathy

This song was from a very different time. Has an innocent, profound, somber feel to it.

2:44 My goosebumps evolved into goosemountains at this part.

My dad's name is America

The song ends with the music going on for a while without any words, because there are no words. It's a song about being lost.

I love this song since my teenager years - now I am a - German - grandmother ! 😉 💙

Could get dangerous hitchhiking from Saginaw... even back then.

Always thoght it said "I'm 18 and aching, and I don't know why". Must have been my subconsciuos.

Listen to the first aid kid version

Sorry. I have to say it.
Boomers were a genius generation when they were young.

Sorry I have to say it. They're from the generation before Boomers - the Silent Generation (1925-1942). As were the Beatles and Dylan. The Boomers can't take the credit for everything (neither can they be blamed for everything)

@Paul Horton Touche! As was nearly everyone on stage at Woodstock. Easy to forget (as I did) that nearly all that great Sixties music came from babies who were born during WWII.

So l watched the scenery she read her
Magazine and the moon rose over an open field Kathy lm lost l said though I knew she was sleeping !!! Wow x

Brilliant song

When I first heard this in Almost Famous it made me feel like I've never felt before, truly beautiful music

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
Cathy, 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

Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And 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

After many, many years of singing along 'a nice tune', last night I was listening with my headphones...... What have I missed all these years. Notice that joyful bassline. Superb production, great arrangements and subtle singing mixed together to create art.

As far as I am concerned Paul Simon is as good if not a better songwriter than Paul McCartney (and I am British)

I agree with you Adrian. Paul Simon is the best songwriter ever. Leonard Cohen is 2nd best I think.

Garfunkel's harmonies in the last refrain are heart wrenching.

#Bernie2020

Turns out, the man in the gabardine suit actually WAS a spy.

poor horace.

Love the organ at the end

Paul Simon should be the Poet Laureate

William Mennell Yes!

Oh how many beautiful souls are listening to this wonderful song, you my friend are cool.

Awesome!

I flippantly sing it when I am walking out the front door

America is hard to find because it was stolen by those in charge of it.

Bernie 2020

America

almost famous!!




watching it right now

never noticed how much depth Art Garfunkel adds to this song - wow

“It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.” J. Maarten Troost

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Right on . smart phones for the dumbed down population; multi-tasking that prevents one from doing any one thing successfully or to completion. Generations of mind numbed robots who sucked up everything the commies told them, scared of their own shadows, capable of nothing but muttering pc crap who think we'll all be dead in a few years anyway.

@Randall Hunter Well said! “Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy, Stay Strong, Will

@Randall Hunter Hilarious for Trump zombies brain washing by Don the Con to be whining about commies.

Please research the flat Earth!

Why don't you go researching it and when you get to the edge go ahead and jump over into the abyss mr. Flat earther

'And the Moon rose over an open field'.


I hurt for the people who will never see such a basic natural wonder.

All come to look for America..

I feel like crying whenever I listen to this song.

Perfection!

Having grown up in a border town on the Canadian side of the St. Clair River and having visited the US many times, this song has always held a great deal of personal meaning and relevance to me.

My english teacher performed this in class with his guitar and then had us analyze the lyrics like a poem on the first day of school.

This is actual garbage. Truly, white people music. Much like their food, very tasteless, and bland.

Look for a free brew? Finding a brew WAR. I am Sorry for the right to brew good beer. Fire brew, He brew, Good brew all lost inside the baggage of a war. The wonder of Egypt, beer! The different grasses of the river to river zone and throughout Southern Illinois provides BEER. Tenable goodness but not for all. A tenable fright for many, Thanks America, Brian Koller

As a little boy in Australia - where the deaths of John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King resonated more loudly than you might have imagined -this gorgeous song really resonated with this one small child: an adopted American aunt brought the promise of the Kennedys, tempered not so well by Nixon and Watergate. I savoured the TV broadcasts of Woodstock and wondered -at first for months, and then for years about the promise of this wonderful world across the Pacific.This song - which I loved as a little boy - still brings me to tears. It's not the world of Donald Trump, it's something a lot deeper and less cheaper. May I, and many besides, see better times ahead.