Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - The Breakup (Audio)
Tempo:
121.35 bpm
Chords used:
Gb
F
G
E
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Since parting company in 1970, Paul and Art Garfunkel [Gb] had only once [E] reunited on stage
at a benefit concert for [F] Democratic presidential [Gb] candidate George McGovern, back in April [A] 72.
[F] But a compilation of their greatest hits, interspersed with some [D] unreleased live tracks,
was a massive worldwide hit later that year.
Any [E] rancour or bitterness [Eb] over the split seemed to have dissipated [F] by [Eb] 1973.
If this snippet of [Em] studio banter is anything [Db] to go by.
This is Art [G] Garfunkel, formerly [N] of Simon & Garfunkel.
I'm [Gb] here in the studio [G] to talk about [A] something that's very [G] important to me.
You know, a lot of people feel that when an important recording group [Bb] such as
Yeah?
Let me interrupt you a minute.
It's not quite serious sounding enough.
Try to make it a little bit more, uh
grave.
[N] Okay.
[Bbm] [A] This is [Gb] Arthur Garfunkel, once of Simon [F] & Garfunkel.
One of the things that's disturbed me through the [Ab] years has been people's reaction to the [Gb] breakup of Simon [D] & Garfunkel.
You know, a lot of people have taken it as a comic event,
and have not realized that only with deep, real feelings of separate [Bb] commitment can such
I like that.
I like that part about the separate commitment.
[G] Can such a breakup actually [F] take place?
[Bb] Only by two people who were once so close end up
Art, Art, try and work it in.
I'll be doing a major college tour this fall.
Who were once so close follow two paths which are so divergent,
[B] whereby [E]
I, for example, record material that I feel expresses my soul,
and you, Paul, who are doing a major college tour this
[D] fall
at a benefit concert for [F] Democratic presidential [Gb] candidate George McGovern, back in April [A] 72.
[F] But a compilation of their greatest hits, interspersed with some [D] unreleased live tracks,
was a massive worldwide hit later that year.
Any [E] rancour or bitterness [Eb] over the split seemed to have dissipated [F] by [Eb] 1973.
If this snippet of [Em] studio banter is anything [Db] to go by.
This is Art [G] Garfunkel, formerly [N] of Simon & Garfunkel.
I'm [Gb] here in the studio [G] to talk about [A] something that's very [G] important to me.
You know, a lot of people feel that when an important recording group [Bb] such as
Yeah?
Let me interrupt you a minute.
It's not quite serious sounding enough.
Try to make it a little bit more, uh
grave.
[N] Okay.
[Bbm] [A] This is [Gb] Arthur Garfunkel, once of Simon [F] & Garfunkel.
One of the things that's disturbed me through the [Ab] years has been people's reaction to the [Gb] breakup of Simon [D] & Garfunkel.
You know, a lot of people have taken it as a comic event,
and have not realized that only with deep, real feelings of separate [Bb] commitment can such
I like that.
I like that part about the separate commitment.
[G] Can such a breakup actually [F] take place?
[Bb] Only by two people who were once so close end up
Art, Art, try and work it in.
I'll be doing a major college tour this fall.
Who were once so close follow two paths which are so divergent,
[B] whereby [E]
I, for example, record material that I feel expresses my soul,
and you, Paul, who are doing a major college tour this
[D] fall
Key:
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F
G
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Gb
F
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Since parting company in 1970, Paul and Art Garfunkel [Gb] had only once [E] reunited on stage
at a benefit concert for [F] Democratic presidential [Gb] candidate George McGovern, back in April [A] 72.
[F] But a compilation of their greatest hits, interspersed with some [D] unreleased live tracks,
was a massive worldwide hit later that year.
_ Any [E] rancour or bitterness [Eb] over the split seemed to have dissipated [F] by [Eb] 1973.
If this snippet of [Em] studio banter is anything [Db] to go by.
This is Art [G] Garfunkel, formerly [N] of Simon & Garfunkel.
I'm [Gb] here in the studio [G] to talk about [A] something that's very [G] important to me.
_ You know, a lot of people feel that when an important recording group [Bb] such as_
Yeah?
Let me interrupt you a minute.
_ It's not quite serious sounding enough. _
Try to make it a little bit more, _ uh_
grave.
_ _ _ _ [N] Okay. _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [A] This is [Gb] Arthur Garfunkel, _ _ once of Simon [F] & Garfunkel. _
One of the things that's disturbed me through the [Ab] years has been people's reaction to the [Gb] breakup of Simon [D] & Garfunkel.
_ You know, a lot of people have taken it as a comic event,
and have not realized that only with deep, real feelings of separate [Bb] commitment can such_
I like that.
I like that part about the separate commitment.
_ [G] Can such a breakup actually [F] take place?
[Bb] _ Only by two people who were once so close end up_
Art, Art, try and work it in.
I'll be doing a major college tour this fall.
_ Who were once so close _ follow two paths which are so _ divergent,
_ _ [B] whereby _ [E]
I, for example, _ record material that I feel expresses my soul,
_ and you, Paul, who are doing a major college tour _ this _ _
[D] fall_ _ _ _ _ _ _
at a benefit concert for [F] Democratic presidential [Gb] candidate George McGovern, back in April [A] 72.
[F] But a compilation of their greatest hits, interspersed with some [D] unreleased live tracks,
was a massive worldwide hit later that year.
_ Any [E] rancour or bitterness [Eb] over the split seemed to have dissipated [F] by [Eb] 1973.
If this snippet of [Em] studio banter is anything [Db] to go by.
This is Art [G] Garfunkel, formerly [N] of Simon & Garfunkel.
I'm [Gb] here in the studio [G] to talk about [A] something that's very [G] important to me.
_ You know, a lot of people feel that when an important recording group [Bb] such as_
Yeah?
Let me interrupt you a minute.
_ It's not quite serious sounding enough. _
Try to make it a little bit more, _ uh_
grave.
_ _ _ _ [N] Okay. _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [A] This is [Gb] Arthur Garfunkel, _ _ once of Simon [F] & Garfunkel. _
One of the things that's disturbed me through the [Ab] years has been people's reaction to the [Gb] breakup of Simon [D] & Garfunkel.
_ You know, a lot of people have taken it as a comic event,
and have not realized that only with deep, real feelings of separate [Bb] commitment can such_
I like that.
I like that part about the separate commitment.
_ [G] Can such a breakup actually [F] take place?
[Bb] _ Only by two people who were once so close end up_
Art, Art, try and work it in.
I'll be doing a major college tour this fall.
_ Who were once so close _ follow two paths which are so _ divergent,
_ _ [B] whereby _ [E]
I, for example, _ record material that I feel expresses my soul,
_ and you, Paul, who are doing a major college tour _ this _ _
[D] fall_ _ _ _ _ _ _