It’s been a long, long day I got some run-down shoes Ain’t got no place to stay But any old place will be okay It’s been a long, long day I sure been on this road Done nearly fourteen years Can’t say my name’s well known You don’t see my face in rolling stone But […]
Lord, i’m a working man And music is my trade I’m travelin’ with this five-piece band And i play the ace of spades I have a wife and family Who don’t see much of me God bless the absentee Lord, i am a surgeon And music is my knife It cuts away my sorrow And […]
Jonah - Paul Simon
Half and hour you change your strings and tune up Sizing the room up Checking the bar Local girls unspoken conversations Misinformation Plays the guitar They say jonah was swallowed by a whale But i say there’s no truth to that tale I know jonah Was swallowed by a song No one lets their dreams […]
Nobody - Paul Simon
Who knows my secret broken Who feels my flesh when i am gone Who was a witness to the dream Who kissed my eyes and saw the scream Lying there Nobody Who is my reason to begin Who plows the earth, who breaks the skin Who took my two hands and made them four Who […]
The boy’s got brains He just don’t use ’em that’s all The boy’s got brains He just refuse to use ’em and that’s all He said "the more i got to thinkin The less i tend to laugh" The boy’s got brains He just abstains The boy’s got a heart But it beats on the […]
In the blue light Of the belvedere motel Wondering as the television burns How the heart approaches what it yearns In a fever I distinctly hear your voice Emerging from a dream, the dream returns How the heart approaches what it yearns After the rain on the interstate The headlights slide past the moon A […]
He’s a one trick pony One trick is all that horse can do He does one trick only It’s the principal source of his revenue And when he steps into the spotlight You can feel the heat of his heart Come rising through See how he dances See how he loops from side to side […]
When i was born my mother died She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye I said "where you goin’?" "i’m just born" She said i’ll only be gone for a while My mother loved to leave in style And that’s why god made the movies So i laid around in my swaddling clothes Until the doctor came […]
the first thing i remember, i was lying in my bed I couldn’t’ve been no more than one or two And i remember there’s a radio, coming from the room next door My mother laughed the way some ladies’ do Well it’s late in the evening, and the music’s seeping through The next thing i […]
Words & music by paul simon I was reading a magazine And thinking of a rock and roll song The year was nineteen fiftyfour And i hadn’t been playing that long When a man came on the radio And this is what he said He said i hate to break it to his fans But […]
