Ventura Highway America Lyrics Music #america #poprock #pop #music #lyrics #classic #fyp #follower #everyone #highlights "Ventura Highway" is a 1972 song by the band America from their album Homecoming, written by Dewey Bunnell. It achieved the number 8 spot in the United States' Billboard Hot 100 and number 43 in the UK Singles Chart. Dewey Bunnell, the song's vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sk