Hunters And Collectors Courtship Of America Lyrics

Courtship Of America Lyrics

Fair weather friends they wished you well
Showered you with admiration
Now
the glass is cracked but you can't turn back
Don't let it break your
concentration

Scratched your name on the dotted line
For romance any
risk is worth taking
"Don't worry" they say "you'll be rich
one day"
Ten years later your hand is still shaking

Won't you
take a chance my friend
You've got nothing to lose in the end
Come on
scratch my back and I'll see you in America

Now when the piper calls the
tune
Songs of joy and desperation
If you're flat on your face just keep
your hair in place
There'll be no lack of cheap conversation

So when
you're wandering the streets
At four o'clock in the morning
There's only
you and some stray sniffin' around Times Square…
Way over
there

So if you've got a message to send
And it's driving you round
the bend
Come on scratch my back
And I'll see you in America

They
bought Manhattan for a song
A few fishhooks for a nation
At the scene of
the crime what's yours will be mine
If you give me the right
combination

It's amazing who you meet
When you're on your last legs
and fading
Merry go round again yeah I'll see you then
But it'll take
some heavy persuasion

Won't you take a chance my friend
You got
nothing to lose in the end
Just swallow the bait before it's too
late
Come on I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine
We'll schmooze
each other 'til the end of time
Into the heavens everlasting
I'll see you
in America

Come on and scratch my back
When you're stuck in the
track
Take a chance my friend