Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - The Late Great Johnny Ace (from The Concert in Central Park)

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_ [G] Well, I [Bb] hope you can hear [F] me.
I'd like to sing a new song. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] I've recorded this song and [G] I've never performed it before [Ebm] so this is the first time.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ I was reading a magazine
_ _ [C] thinking of a rock and [D] roll song.
The year was
_ _ _ 1956 [G] and I hadn't been playing that long.
_ When [C] a man came on the radio _ _
[F] this is what he [Bb] said. _ _
_ [Am] _ _ He [Dm] said I hate to break it to [Em] his fans, but Johnny Ace's [F] did.
_ _ [Am] _ Well, _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] I really [D] wasn't such a Johnny Ace fan, but I felt bad all the same.
_ So I sent away for his photograph _ and I [G] waited till it came.
_ _ [C] All the way from Texas
_ with [F] a sad and simple [Bb] face.
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And they [D] signed it on the [E] bottle _ from the late [Am] great Johnny Ace.
_ It _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
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_ was the year of the Beatles.
It was the year of the [G] stones.
_ [C] It was
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[C] 1964.
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I was _ [Gm] living in London with a girl from the Sunday fall.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ It was the year of the Beatles.
It was the year of the stones.
[C] _ A year [Gm] after JFK.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ We were staying [Gm] up all night and kicking the _ days [F] away. _
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_ _ _ And the [Eb] music was [Ab] flowing
_ _ [Eb] amazing and [Bb] blowing _ my [Ab] way. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ On a cold December evening, _ I was walking through the Christmas tide.
_ When a stranger came up and asked me if [G] I had heard John Lennon had died. _
And [C] the two of us went to this bar and [F] we stayed to close [Bb] the place.
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_ _ _ _ _ And [Dm]
every song [E] we played was for the late [Am] great Johnny Ace. _ _ _ _
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