CAm
I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told,
GF
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such
C
are promises.
AmGF
All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and
CGFGC
Dis-regards the rest, ummmm
CAm
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
GDmC
In the company of strangers, in the quiet of the railway station
AmCF
Running scared, laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
GFEm
Where the ragged people go, looking for the places only they
C
would know.
CAmGAm
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, lie la lie,
GFGC
Lie la lie la la la la lie la la la la lie.
CAm
Asking only workman’s wages, I come looking for a job
GDmC
But I get no of-fers, just a come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue
AmDmGF
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
CG
I took some comfort there__ Ooo-la – la__ la__la la la__
CG7CAm
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
GDmG7GC
Going home, where the New York City winters are-n’t bleeding me
EmAmGC
Leading me, going home
CAm
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade,
GG7C
And he carries the reminders of every glove that’s laid him down
DmG7CAm
Or cut him till he cried__ out in his anger and his shame
GFC
“I am leaving, I am leaving.” But the fighter still remains
GCGFCAm
Lie-la lie,
AmGAm
Lie-la lie-la lie-la lie lie-la-lie
GFC
Lie-la lie la la la la – lie.
AmGAm
Lie-la lie-la lie-la lie lie-la-lie
GFC
Lie-la lie la la la la – lie.
GEm
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
DC
I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of
GEmD
mumbles such are promises All lies and jest,still a man hears
CGDCG
what he wants to hear disregards the rest
GEm
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
DC
In the company of strangers In the quiet of a railway station
GEmDC
running scared Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
C
Where the ragged people go
DCDG
Looking forthe places only they would know
EmDEmC
Lie la lie Lie la lie la lie la lie Lie la lie lie la lie
DG
la la la la lie la la la la
GEm
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
DCG
But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Ave
EmDC
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome I took
GDCG
some comfort there ooh la la la la la la
GEm
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
DCDG
Going home where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
EmD
Leading me, going home.
GEm
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
D
And he carries
CG
the reminders of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried
EmDC
out in his anger and his shame I am leaving,
I am leaving but the fighter
GDCEmDEm
still remains Lie la lie lie la lie la lie la lie Lie la lie
CDEm
lie la lie la la la la lie la la la la lie
Repeat lie la lie etc but end on G fading
Am
1 It was a slow day
C - DAmC - DC - DC - D
and the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road.
There was a bright light,
a shattering of shop windows, the bomb in the baby carriage
was wired to the radio.
Chorus:
GCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
GCDC - DC - D
This is the long distance call.
The way the camera follows us in slomo,
the way we look to us all,
The way we look to a distant constellation
that’s dying in a corner of the sky.
These are the days of miracle and wonder
and don’t cry, baby, don’t cry, don’t cry.
2 It was a dry wind
and it swept across the desert and curled into the circle
of birth.
And the dead sand
was falling on the children, the mothers and the fathers
and the automatic earth.
Chorus:
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
This is the long distance call.
The way the camera follows us in slomo,
the way we look to us all,
The way we look to a distant constellation
that’s dying in a corner of the sky.
These are the days of miracle and wonder
and don’t cry, baby, don’t cry, don’t cry.
3 It’s a turn around jump-shot,
it’s ev’rybody jump start, it’s ev’ry generation throws
a hero up the pop-charts.
Medicine is magical and magical is art.
There go the boy in the bubble and the baby with
the baboon heart.
Chorus:
These are the days of lasers in the jungle,
lasers in the jungle somewhere.
Staccato signals of constant information,
a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby:
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
This is the long distance call.
The way the camera follows us in slomo,
the way we look to us all, don’t cry, don’t cry.
TAB III
1 2
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0---0--1-3-|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2------------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
3 4
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0----------|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2-----0------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
5 6
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0---0--1-3-|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2------------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
A family of musicians took shelter for the night
7 8
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0----------|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2-----0------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
in a little harbor church of St Cecilia
9 10
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0---0--1-3-|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2------------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
Two gui- tars, bata bass drum and tambourine
11 12
E:-1^0------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-----3-1--0-------0----1-1--|-1^0-------------0----------|
G:---------------2-------0-0--|-----2-0--0----2-----0------|
D:-----------------------2-2--|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea
13 14
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
B:---3--3--3---3---1---0------|---3--3--3---3---1---0------|
G:-2/4--4--4---4---2---0------|-2/4--4--4---4---2---0------|
D:----------------------------|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
This is a lonely life
15 16
E:----------------------------|--1------0------------------|
B:---3--3--3---3---1---0-1-3--|----------------3-----1---0-|
G:-2/4--4--4---4---2---0-2-4--|----------------------------|
D:----------------------------|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
sor- rows every-where
17 18
E:----------------------------|-------------------------0--|
B:------0------1--------------|--------------------1-------|
G:--2---------0---------------|---------------0------------|
D:-----------2----------------|----------2-----------------|
A:----------3-----------------|-----3----------------------|
E:---------3------------------|----------------------------|
you turn....
19 20
E:-----------------1-0---0----|-----------------1-0--------|
B:-----------------3-1-----1--|-----------------3-1--------|
G:--4-----3---0---------------|--4-----3---0---------------|
D:--4-----3---0---------------|--4-----3---0---------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
and that's worth something that's worth some money
(When you think about it)
21 22
E:-----------------1-0---0----|----------------------------|
B:-----------------3-1-----1--|----------------------------|
G:--4-----3---0---------------|--4----3-0----0-------------|
D:--4-----3---0---------------|--4----3-0----0-------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
and that's worth something that's worth some money
(When you think about it)
Repeat measures 5 to 22, then:
23 24
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-------0-0------------3-----|-------0-0------------------|
G:-------0-0-------0----2-----|-------0-0-------0----------|
D:-------0-0-------2----0-----|-------0-0-------2----0-----|
A:-----------------3----------|-----------------3----0-----|
E:--3---------3---------------|--3---------3---------------|
25 26
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|
B:-------0-0------------3-----|---3----1----0--------------|
G:-------0-0-------0----2-----|---2----0----0--------------|
D:-------0-0-------2----0-----|---0----2----0--------------|
A:-----------------3----------|----------------------------|
E:--3---------3-------------3-|---------------------(3)----|
Repeat four times measures 23 to 26
After the percussive interlude, repeat from the beginning etc.
A family of musicians took shelter for the night
In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia
Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine
Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea
This is a lonely life
Sorrows everywhere you turn
And that's worth something
When you think about it
That's worth some money
That's worth something
When you think about it
That is worth some money
A trip to the market
A trip into the pearl gray morning sunlight
That settles over Washington
A trip to the market
A trip around the world
Where the evening meal
Is negotiable, if there is one.
This is a lonely-lone, lonely life
Sorrows everywhere you turn
And that's worth something
When you think about it
That's worth some money
That's worth something
When you think about it
That is worth some money
To prove that I love you
Because I believe in you
Summer skies, stars are falling
All along the injured coast
If I have money
If I have children
Summer skies, stars are falling
All along the injured coast
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
Summer skies and stars are falling
All along the injured coast
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
Summer skies and the stars are falling
All along the injured coast
We are standing in the sunlight
The early morning sunlight
In the harbor church of St. Cecilia
To praise a soul's returning to the earth
To the Rose of Jericho and the Bougainvillea
To prove that I love you
Because I believe in you
Summer skies, stars are falling
All along the injured coast
If I have money
If I have children
Summer skies, stars are falling
All along the injured coast
If I have weaknesses
Don't let them blind me now
Summer skies, stars are falling
All along the injured coast
Oo-wah Oo-wah
Doo Wop a Doo Wah
Summer skies, stars are falling
Leaving the shadow of the valley behind me now
All along the injured coast
Ooh-wah Ooh-wah
Doo Wop a Doo Wah
Summer skies and stars are falling
All along the injured coast
Ooh-wah Ooh-wah
Doo Wop a Doo Wah
Capo 4th fret.
Intro: GG
Verse:
GGCC
Tom, get your plane right on time
GGCC
I know your part'll go fine
GGCEmAmC
fly down to Mexico
DC
Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da and here I am
GCGCGAm
The only living boy in New York.
GGCC
I get the news I need from the weather report
GCC
I can gather all the news I need from the weather report
GGCGAmD
Hey, I've got nothing to do to-day but smile
DC
Do-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da-n here I am
GCEm
The only living boy in New York .
AmD
Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know
GCC
Where, and we don't know where
AmD
Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know
GCC
Where, and we don't know where
GGCC
Tom, get your plane right on time
GGCC
I know that you've been eager to fly now
GCGAmC
Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine now,
DGDC
Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-do like it shines on me
GC
The only living boy in New York
GCG
The only living boy in New York .
Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York
Capo 2
Am9G
e:|---0---0---0---0-|-----------------|--(3)-----(3)----|----------|
B:|-----0-------0---|-----------------|-------0-------0-|----------|
G:|-2-------2-------|--------%--------|-----0-------0---|--------%-|
D:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------|
A:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|----------|
Hello ... friend I've come to
AmCFCC
e:|---0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|---1-------0-----|---0-------0-----|
B:|-------1-------1-|---------------1-|-------1-------1-|-------1------(0)|
G:|-----2-------2---|-----2-0-----0---|-----2-------0---|-----0-------0---|
D:|-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A:|-0-------0-------|---------3-------|---------3-------|-3-------3-------|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|-1---------------|-----------------|
again because .. softly creeping left it's ...
FCF
e:|-----1-----------|---0-------0-----|---1-------1-----|-----------------|
B:|-----------1-----|-------1-------1-|-------1-------1-|-----------------|
G:|--------2--------|-----0-------0---|-----2-------2---|--------%--------|
D:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A:|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|
E:|--1--------------|-----------------|-1-------1-------|-----------------|
sleeping and .. vision that was ... brain
CCAmCG
e:|----0-------0----|-----------------|-----------------|---3-------3-----|
B:|--------1--------|--(1)------1-----|-----1-------1---|-------0-------0-|
G:|------0----------|-----0-------2---|---------0-------|-----0-------0---|
D:|-0h2----------3-2|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A:|----------3------|-3-----2-0-----2-|--3--------------|-----------------|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|
still ... within the sound of
AmGG
e:|---0-------0-----|-----------------|-----------3-----|-3-3-----3-------|
B:|-------1-------1-|-----------------|-----------0-----|-0-0-----0-------|
G:|-----2-------2---|-----------------|-----------0-----|-0-0-----0-strum-|
D:|-----------------|-2---------------|-0-0-----0---0-0-|-----------------|
A:|-0-------0-------|-0---------------|-------0-2---2-3-|-----------------|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|-3---3-----------|-----3-0-3-------|
silence In restless . alone narrow ...
$ AmCFC
e:|---0-------0-----|---0-------------|-1---------------|-----------------|
B:|-1-1---0-1-1---0-|-1-1---0-1-------|-1-------1-------|-1-------1-------|
G:|-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-|-2-2-2-0-0-strum-|-2-strum-0-strum-|-0-strum-0-strum-|
D:|-2---2-0-2---2-0-|-2---2-0-2-----0-|-3-----0-2-----0-|-2-----0-2-----0-|
A:|-0---0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-3-----0-|-3-----0-3-----0-|-3-----0-3-----0-|
E:|-----------------|---------3-----0-|-1-----0-3-----0-|-3-----0-3-----0-|
stone 'neath halo ... lamp I turned ...
FCF
e:|-1---------------|-----------------|---1-1-----1-1---|----------|
B:|-1-------1-------|---1-------------|---1-1-----1-1---|----------|
G:|-2-strum-0-strum-|---0--strum------|---2-2-----2-2---|--------%-|
D:|-3-----0-2-----0-|---2------0------|-3-3-3-0-3-3-3-0-|----------|
A:|-3-----0-3-----0-|---3------0------|-3---3-0-3---3-0-|----------|
E:|-1-----0-3-----0-|---3------0------|-1---1-0-1---1-0-|----------|
cold & damp when my eyes stabbed .. flash of a neon ..
CAm @ CG
e:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B:|-1-------1-1-----|-------------1---|---------1-------|-----------------|
G:|-0-strum-0-0-2-0-|-----0-------2---|---------0-------|-0-0-0---0-0-0---|
D:|-2-----0-2-2-3-2-|-2-2-------2-2---|-----2-----------|-0-0-0---0-0-0---|
A:|-3-----0-3-3-----|-3-3---2-0-----2-|--3----------2---|-2-2-2---2-2-2---|
E:|-3-----0-3-3-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-3-3-0-3-3-3-0-|
light ... split night and touched the sound of
# AmC #
e:|-----------------|-----------------|
B:|-1-1-1---1-1-1---|-1-------1-------|
G:|-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-|-2-str-0-0-str-0-|
D:|-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-|-2-----0-2-----0-|
A:|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-----0-3-----0-|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|
silence And in .. naked land I ...
(For "saw ... ten thousand people maybe more" jump back to . At $, replace
one measure with the following Am variation):
Am
e:|-------------0-------|
B:|---1---------1-------|
G:|---2-----------------|
D:|-2---2-0-0h2---2p0---|
A:|-0---0-------------3-|
E:|---------------------|
(Also, from # to #, replace two measures with the following Am variation):
Am
e:|-----------------|-----------------|
B:|-----------------|-----------------|
G:|---strum--strum--|--------%--------|
D:|-2---------------|-----------------|
A:|-0---------------|-----------------|
E:|-----------------|-----------------|
... Fools said I you Do not ...
(For "know ... silence like a cancer grows" jump back to . Use the Am
variation above again at $. At @, jump to the following):
CGAm
e:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B:|-------1---1---1-|---0-----0-------|-----------------|-----------------|
G:|-0-strum-0---0---|-------0---0---0-|-2-str-0-2-str-0-|--------%--------|
D:|-2-------2---2---|-----0-------0---|-2-----0-2-----0-|-----------------|
A:|-3---------------|-------------2---|-0-----0-0-----0-|-----------------|
E:|-----------------|-3-------3---3---|-----------------|-----------------|
echoed in the ... of silence And the people ..
(For "prayed ... to the neon" jump back to . At @, jump to the following):
CGAm9Am7
e:|-----------------|-----------------|---0---0---0---0-|----0---0--------|
B:|-----------------|--------0--------|-----0-------0---|------0----------|
G:|---0---0---0---0-|----0------0-----|-2-------2-------|--2----------0---|
D:|-----2-------2---|------0----------|-----------------|-------------2---|
A:|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------0---|
E:|-----------------|--3--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
whispered in sounds of silence
Paul Simon performs 'The Sounds of Silence' at Ground Zero for the 9/11 Anniversary
AmG
Hello darkness my old friend
Am
I've come to talk with you again
CFC
Because a vision softly creeping
CFC
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
FC
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Am
Still remains
CGAm
Within the sound of silence...
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of Coblestone
Near the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence...
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence...
Fool said I you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent rain drops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence...
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the signs flashed out its warning
In the words that I was forming
And the signs said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
"C" form E 2nd form
|--------4---|----4---5---|----4---5---|----4---5---|------------|=
|----5-------|7-----------|7-----------|7-----------|------------|
|4-------4---|----4---6---|----4---6---|----4---6---|------------|
|----6-------|7-----------|7-----------|7-----------|------------|
|7-----------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
"C" form E "E"form =
(1) =
|----4---5---|4-----------|----4-------|------------|------------|
|7-----------|----5-------|5-------5---|7---5-------|----7---5---|
|----4---6---|4-------4---|----4-------|--------6--5|------------|
|7-----------|----6-------|6-------6---|7-------7-7-|7-----------|
|------------|--------7---|------------|--------7---|------------|
|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
"C" form E Back to the top
|4-----------|------------||
|----5-------|5-----------||
|4-------4---|------------||
|----6-------|6-----------||
|--------7---|------------||
|------------|------------||
(2)
||------------||
||5-----------||
||----4-------||
||6-----------||
||----7-------||
||--------0---||
GDA man walks down the street,
CD
he says why am I soft in the middle now,
GD
why am I soft in the middle,
CD
the rest of my life is so hard,
GD
I need a photo-opportunity,
CD
I want a shot at redemption,
GD
dont want to end up a cartoon,
CD
in a cartoon graveyard,
GD
bonedigger, bonedigger,
CD
dogs in the moonlight,
GDCD
far away my well-lit door,
GD
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly,
CD
get these mutts away from me,
GDCD
you know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.
GD
If youll be my bodyguard
CDGDCD
I can be your long lost pal,
GD
I can call you Betty,
CD
and Betty when you call me
GDCD
you can call me Al.
A man walks down the street,
he says why am I short of attention,
got a short little span of attention,
and wo my nights are so long,
wheres my wife and family,
what if I die here,
wholl be my role-model,
now that my role-model is
gone, gone,
he ducked back down the alley
with some roly-poly little bat-faced girl,
all along, along
there were incidents and accidents,
there were hints and allegations.
If youll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal,
I can call you Betty,
and Betty when you call me
GDCD
you can call me Al,
GDCD
call me Al.
A man walks down the street,
its a street in a strange world,
maybe its the Third World,
maybe its his first time around,
he doesnt speak the language,
he holds no currency,
he is a foreign man,
he is surrounded by
the sound, the sound,
cattle in the marketplace,
scatterlings and orphanages,
he looks around, around,
he sees angels in the architecture,
spinning in infinity,
he says Amen and Hallelujah!
If you'll be my bodyguard...