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Home , At the Zoo, A Hazy Shade of Winter, Lenny Bruce

1. ( & Art Garfun- 2. America (Paul Simon & ) kel) Dmi C C Cmaj7 Ami C F Time time time see what’s become of me 1. „Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together Bb Ami C Cmaj7 Ami(Ami7) while I looked around for my possibilities I’ve got some real estate here in my bag.ÿ C Dmi 7 7 7 9 I was so hard to please but look around Emi A Emi A b So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies C B A7 Dmi leaves are brown and the sky is a hazy shade of winter. Emi7 D C G C Cmaj7 Ami Ami7 F C and walked off to look for America. Hear the Salvation Army Band Bb 2. „Kathyÿ I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh down by the riverside it’s bound to be a better ride „Michigan seems like a dream to me now Ami G than what you’ve got planned it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw C Dmi maj7 carry your cup in your hand and look around D G D C C I’ve come to look for America.ÿ C Bb A7 Dmi leaves are brown now and the sky is a hazy shade of winter. b b B maj7 B C C R: Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces Hang onto your hopes my friend b b B maj7 C B she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy that’s an easy thing to say maj7 but if your hopes should pass away F F C Ami C Dmi I said:„Be careful his bowtie is really a cam’ra.ÿ simply pretend that you can build them again look around, 3. C7 Bb7 „Toss me a cigarette I think there’s one in my raincoat.ÿ the grass is high the fields are ripe „We smoked the last one an hour ago.ÿ 7 A Dmi Gmi7 A9 Emi7 A9 it’s the springtime of my life. So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine b B F D C G C Cmaj7 Ami7 C F Seasons change with the scenery and the moon rose over an open field. F maj7 C9 weaving time in a tapestry F F maj7 Emi7 Dmi A7 Dmi 4. „Kathy I’m lostÿ I said though I knew she was sleeping won’t you stop and remember me F C C „I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.ÿ at any convenient time b G B Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike funny how my mem’ry skips D G D Cmaj7 C while looking over manuscripts they’ve all come to look for America A mi maj7 maj7 of unpublished rhyme. D G D C C D G D C C C Dmi all come to look for America all come to look for America ... Drinking my vodka and lime I look around C7 Bb7 A7 Dmi leaves are brown now and the sky is a hazy shade of winter C Bb7 look around leaves are brown A7 Dmi there’s a patch of snow on the ground C Bb7 look around leaves are brown A7 Dmi there’s a patch of snow on the ground C Bb7 look around leaves are brown A7 Dmi there’s a patch of snow on the ground ...

1 3. (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) 4. Bye Bye Love (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel / Felice & Boudleaux Bryant) Amaj7 A7 Someone told me it’s all happening at the Zoo A E A E 7 7 D D G D A R: Bye bye love bye bye happiness I do believe it I do believe it’s true A E H7 E G D7 G H7 Emi7 H7 Emi G D7 G H7 Emi7 H7 Emi hello loneliness I think I’m gonna cry hm hm hm hm A E A E Hmi7 G Emi bye bye love bye bye sweet caress it’s a light and tumble journey A E H7 E Hmi7 G Hmi7 Emi hello emptiness I feel like I could die from the East Side to the park H7 E Hmi7 G Hmi Emi Hmi7 D D7 bye bye my love goodbye. just a fine and fancy ramble to the Zoo G H7 Emi7 E H7 E but you can take the crosstown bus 1. There goes my baby with someone new Hmi7 G H7 Emi H7 E if it’s raining or it’s cold she sure looks happy I sure am blue Hmi7 G H7 Emi Hmi7 A6 Emi A6 Emi A H7 and the animals will love it if you do if you do oo oo she was my baby till he stepped in Amaj7 A7 E somethin’ tells me it’s all happening at the Zoo goodbye to romance that might have been. 7 7 D D G D Gmi Hmi R: I do believe it I do believe it’s true 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 G D G H Emi H Emi G D G H Emi H Emi 2. I’m through with romance I’m through with love hm hm hm hm I’m through with counting the stars above D7 G H7 Emi the monkeys stand for honesty and here’s the reason that I’m so free Hmi7 G H7 Emi11 my loving baby is through with me. giraffes are insincere R: Emi Hmi7 G H7 Emi Hmi7 D D7 and the elephants are kindly but they’re dumb G H7 Emi orangutans are skeptical Hmi7 G H7 Emi of changes in their cages Hmi7 G H7 Emi Hmi7 G Emi Hmi7 and the zookeeper is very fond of rum G H7 Emi Hmi7 zebras are reactionaries G H7 Emi Hmi7 antelopes are missionaries G H7 Emi Hmi7 5. Bookends (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) pigeons plot in secrecy 7 G H7 Emi G Emi D and hamsters turn on frequently what a gas! Time it was and what a time it was it was 7 Emi Emi D You gotta come and see a time of innocence a time of confidences Emi7 D G H7 Emi G H7 Emi G H7 Emi long ago it must be I have a photograph at the Zoo at the Zoo at the Zoo 7 7 7 G H7 Emi G H7 Emi G H7 Emi Emi D Emi D Emi D at the Zoo at the Zoo at the Zoo ... preserve your memories they’re all that’s left you ...

2 6. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon & Art Gar- 7. Cecilia (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) funkel) F Bb F D G D 1. Cilia you’re breaking my heart 1. When you’re weary feeling small Bb F C G C G D G you’re shaking my confidence daily when tears are in your eyes Bb F Bb F D G D G D oh Cecilia I’m down on my knees I will dry them all Bb F C 9 D A Hmi A A D C# I’m begging you please to come home. I’m on your side oh when times get rough 2.=1. D7 D9 G E A b and friends just can’t be found F B F R: D7 D9 G F dim D H7 Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia G# A b like a bridge over troubled water B F C F G F #7 Hmi up in my bedroom making love b I will lay me down B F D I got up to wash my face D7 D9 G dim H7 G# A F C F like a bridge over troubled water when I come back to bed someone’s taken my place. G A9 A7 D G D G D G I will lay me down. 3.=1. b 2. When you’re down and out when you’re on the street F B C F *: Come on home poh poh poh ... When evening falls so hard I will comfort you 4. Jubilation she loves me again I’ll take your part oh when darkness comes I fall on the floor and I’m laughing and pain is all around jubilation she loves me again like a bridge over troubled water I fall on the floor and I’m laughing oh oh oh ... I will lay me down 7 9 F dim D D D G G# A Hmi like a bridge over troubled water Hmi # G F # F Hmi I will lay me down. D R: Sail on silver girl sail on by 8. El Condor Pasa (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) G C G D G your time has come to shine Emi G D G D G 1. I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail all your dreams are on their way Emi D yes I would if I could I surely would D A Hmi A D A see how they shine oh if you need a friend G 7 9 I’d rather be a hammer than a nail D D G E A Emi I’m sailing right behind yes I would if I only could I surely would. F D D7 D9 G dim Hmi G# A C like a bridge over troubled water R: Away I’d rather sail away # G Hmi F Hmi G I will ease your mind like a swan that’s here and gone 7 9 F dim D D D G G# A Hmi C like a bridge over troubled water a man gets tied up to the ground G F #7 Hmi G Emi I will ease your mind. he gives the world its saddest sound its saddest sound. 2. I’d rather be a forest than a street yes I would if I could I surely would I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet

3 9. For Emily Whenever I May Find Her ( Paul Simon &11. (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) Art Garfunkel) C F C 1. G C Ami A winter’s day in a deep and dark December 7 7 7 1. What a dream I had pressed in organdy Dmi G F C Dmi Emi G F I am alone gazzing from my window clothed in crinoline of smoky Burgundy Dmi7 Emi7 C D to the streets below softer than the rain Dmi F G G C Ami on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow I wandered empty streets down past the shop displays F C F G7 C Ami (Ami, Ami, Ami, C) G F R: I am a rock I am an island. I heard cathedral bells tripping down the alley ways 2. I’ve built walls a fortress deep and mighty C D that’s none may penetrate I have no need of friendship, as I walked on. friendship causes pain 2. And when you ran to me your cheeks flushed with the ni- it’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain. ght R: we walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight 3. I held your hand Don’t talk of love but I’ve heard the word before and when I awoke and felt you warm and near it’s sleeping in my memory I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears if I never loved I never would have cried. oh I love you girl oh I love you. R: 4. I have my books and my poetry to protect me 10. Homeward Bound (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) I am shielded in my armour hidding in my room safe within my womb C I touch no one and no one touches me. 1. I’m sitting in the railway station Dmi7 G7 C 6 7 Emi Gmi A R: + and a rock feels no pain got a ticket for my destination hm Dmi7 G7 C Dmi and an island never cries ... on a tour of one-night stands b B 12. Kathy’s Song (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) my suitcase and guitar in hand C G Gsus4 G 1. and ev’ry stop is neatly planned I hear the drizzle on the way A D 7 mi G C Ami G F # for a poet and a one-man band. like a memory it falls G Hmi G C C F C F R: soft and warm continuing Homeward Bound I wish I was Homeward Bound Ami C Dmi C Bb F Ami G D G home where my thought’s escaping tapping on my roof and walls. b 2. C Dmi C B F And from the shelter of my mind home where my music’s playing through the window of my eyes C Dmi C Bb F G7 C I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets home where my love lies waiting silently for me. Ami D C G to England where my heart lies. 2. Ev’ry day’s an endless stream 3. My mind’s distracted and confused of cigarettes and magazines hm my thoughts are many miles away and each town looks the same to me they lie with you in your sleep the movies and the factories kiss you when you start the day. and ev’ry stranger’s face I see 4. And this song I was writing is left undone reminds me that I long to be. I don’t know why I spend my time R: writing songs I can’t believe 3. Tonight I’ll sing my songs again with words that tear and strain to rhyme. I’ll play the game and pretend hm 5. And so you see I have come to doubt but all my words come back to me all that I once held as true in shades of mediocrity I stand alone without beliefs like emptiness in harmony the only truth I know is you. I need someone to comfort me. 6. And as I watch the drops of rain C Cmaj7 C7 C F C weave their weary paths and die R: + silently for me ... I know that I am like the rain there but for the grace of you go I.

4 13. Keep the Customer Satisfied (Paul Simon & Art Gar-14. Mrs. Robinson (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) funkel) G Emi R: D And here’s to you Mrs. Robinson 1. Gee but it’s great to be back home G Emi C D7 home is where I want to be Jesus loves you more than you will know wo wo wo G G Emi I’ve been on the road so long my friend God bless you please Mrs. Robinson A G G Emi C Ami E and if you came along I know you couldn’t disagree. heaven holds a place for those who pray hey hey hey hey hey hey.

7 G D E 1. R: It’s the same old story yeah(-) We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files 7 9 G D A A A ev’rywhere I go I get slandered Libeled we’d like to help you learn to help yourself D G D7 G C Ami I hear words I never heard in the Bible look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes D Hmi E D7 and I’m one step ahead of the shoe shine stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. D Hmi two steps away from the county line, R: G(G, A) D D7 G D just trying to keep my customers satisfied satisfied. 2. Hide it in a hiding-place where no one ever goes put it in your pantry with your cupcakes 2. Deputy sheriff said to me it’s a little secret just the Robinson’s affair tell me what you came here for boy most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids. you better get your bags and flee R: you’re in trouble boy and now you’re heading into more. Coo coo cachoo Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know wo wo wo R: God bless you please Mrs. Robinson

D heaven holds a place for those who pray hey hey hey hey hey G G D hey. *: Woh woh woh ... 3. Sittting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon R: But it’s the same old story going to the candidates’ debate ev’rywhere I go I get slandered Libeled laugh about it shout about it when you’ve got to choose I hear words I never heard in the Bible ev’ry way you look at it you lose. and I’m so tired I’m oh so tired two steps away from the county line, R: Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio but I’m trying to keep my customers satisfied satisfied. a nation turns its lonely eyes to you woo woo woo what’s that you say Mrs. Robinson „Joltin’ Joeÿ has left and gone away hey hey hey hey hey hey.

5 15. Old Friends (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) 17. Song For the Asking (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) Gmaj7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Dmaj7 D7 G C Emi Old friends old friends Here is my song for the asking 7 7 Emi A D Hmi Ami7 H sat on their park bench like bookends. ask me and I will play 7 Emi A H7 C G D7 G a newspaper blown through the grass so sweetly I’ll make you smile H mi C Emi falls on the round toes this is my tune for the taking Dmaj7 G D6 Gmaj7 Dmaj7 A 7 H on the high shoes of the old friends mi take it don’t turn away Gmaj7 Dmaj7 Emi7 A7 H7 C G C D7 G old friends winter companions I’ve been waiting all my life Gmaj7 F #mi7 Emi7 A7 Emi Hmi H the old men lost in their overcoats thinking it over I’ve been sad D Emi7 Hmi # 7 waiting for the sunset G dim Ami D Emi7 A7 F #mi7 Hmi thinking it over I’d be more than glad 7 the sounds of the city sifting through trees G G E C Emi A G D6 to change my ways for the asking 7 settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends Ami H Emi7 A7 Dmaj7 ask me and I will play can you imagine us years from today H7 C G C G D7 G G Gmi D all the love that I hold inside. sharing a park bench quietly Emi7 A7 Hmi 18. Sound Of Silence (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) how terribly strange to be seventy Gmaj7 Dmaj7 Emi7 A7 Gmaj7 F #mi7 Dmi C 1. old friends memory brushes the same years Hello darkness my old friend Dmi Emi7 A7 D6 Hmi Gmaj7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Dmaj7 I’ve come to talk with you again silently sharing the same fears ... F Bb F 16. Scarborough Fair - Canticle (Paul Simon & Art Gar- because a vision softly creeping b funkel) B F left it seeds while I was sleeping Emi D Emi b 1. Are you going to Scarborough Fair B F G Emi G A Emi and the vision that was planted in my brain parsley sage rosemary and thyme Dmi F C Dmi G F #mi Emi D still remains within . remember me to one who lives there 2. In restless dreams I walked alone Emi D Emi D Emi D Emi narrow streets of cobble-stone she once was a true love of mine. neath the halo of a street lamp 2. Tell her to make me a cambric shirt I turned my collar to the cold and damp on the side of a hill in the deep forest green when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light parsley sage rosemary and thyme that spilt the night and touched the sound of silence. tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground 3. without no seams nor needlework And in the naked light I saw blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains ten thousand people maybe more then she’ll be a true love of mine people talking without speaking sleeps unaware of the clarion call. people hearing without listening 3. Tell her to find me an acre of land people writing songs that voices never share on the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves and no one dare disturb the sound of silence. parsley sage rosemary and thyme 4. „Fools!ÿ said I „you do not know washed is the ground with so many tears silence like a cancer grows between the salt water and the sea strand hear my words that I might teach you a soldier cleans and polishes a gun take my armsthat I might reach you.ÿ then she’ll be a true love of mine. But my words like silent raindrops fell 4. Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather and echoed in the wells of silence. war bellows blazing in scarlet battalions 5. And the people bowed and prayed parsley sage rosemary and thyme to the neon god they made generals order their soldiers to kill and the sign flashed out its warning and to gather it all in a bunch of heather in the words that it was forming and the sign said: and to fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten „The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls then she’ll be a true love of mine. 5.=1. and tenament hallsÿ and whisper’d in the sound of silence.

6 19. (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) 20. The Only Living Boy In ( Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) C Ami 1. I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told G C G 1. Tom get your plane right on time I have squandered my resistance G C C I know your part’ll go fine for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises C G C Ami G D Ami H fly down to Mexico all lies and jests C G F da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am still a man hears what he wants to hear C G C G C G and disregards the rest. the only living boy in New York. C Ami 2. I get the news I need on the weather report 2. When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy I can gather all the news I need on the weather report G hey I’ve got nothing to do today but smile in the company of strangers da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da here I am Dmi7 C in the quiet of the railway station running scared the only living boy in New York. Ami G F E Ami D7 G laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters R: Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where C C G C G C where the ragged people go and we don’t know where. G F Emi Dmi C 3. looking for the places only they would know. Tom get your plane right on time Ami G Ami F G C I know you’ve been eager to fly now R: Lie la lie ... hey let your honesty shine shine shine shine C Ami da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da like it shines on me 3. Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job [: the only living boy in New York. :] G but I get no offers, Dmi7 C just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue Ami Dmi7 C F I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome C G C 21. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) (sim- I took some comfort there oo-la-la ... gar) R: C G7 C Ami D A Hmisus7 A P aul Simon & Art Garfunkel 1. 4. Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone Slow down you move too fast G D A Hmisus7 A going home you got to make the morning last Dmi7 G7 G C D A Hmisus7 A where the winters aren’t bleeding me just kickin’ down the cobble stones Emi Ami G C D A Hmisus7 A leading me, going home. looking for fun and Feelin’ Groovy D A Hmi A C Ami sus7 pa da da da da da da Feelin’ Groovy. 5. In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade G 2. Hello lamppost whatcha knowin’ and he carries the reminders I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’ G7 ain’tcha got no rhymes for me of ev’ry glove that laid him down doot-in-doo-doo Feelin’ Groovy C Dmi7 G7 C or cut him till he cried out pa da da da da da da Feelin’ Groovy. Ami 3. Got no deeds to do no promises to keep in his anger and his shame G F I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep „I am leaving, I am leavingÿ let the morning time drop all its petals on me C life I love you all is groovy but the fighter still remains. pa da da da da da da ... R: R: R: ...

7 22. Wednesday Morning 3 a.m. (Paul Simon & Art Gar-23. Seven O’Clock News (Silent Night) ( Paul Simon & funkel) Art Garfunkel) Rec: This is the early evening edition of the news. The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open F Dmi Bb Ami 1. I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of F Gmi C as she lies here beside me asleep with the night the measure without the votes of their strongest suppor- b ters. F Dmi B Ami President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban and her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow covering discrimination by everyone for every type of b F Gmi B C F Gmi housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight. in Congress knew it. A compromise was painfully worked out 2. She is soft she is warm but my heart remains heavy in the House Judiciary Committee. In today come- and I watch as her breasts gently rise gently fall dian for I know with the first light of dawn I’ll be leaving died of what was believed to be an overdoes and tonight will be all I have left to recall. of . Bruce was 42 years old. Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing 3. Oh what have I done why have I done it march Sunday into the suburb of Cicero. Cook County I’ve comitted a crime I’ve broken the Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and for twenty-five dollars and pieces of silver the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Gu- ard I held up and robbed a hard liquor store. to be called out if it is held. King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday. In Chicago 4. My life seems unreal my crime an illusion Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was a scene badly written in which I must play brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nur- ses yet I know as I gaze at my young love beside me were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment. the morning is just a few hours away. In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a spe- cial subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Viet-Nam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans. For- mer Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Viet Nam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Fore- ign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S. That’s the 7 o’clock edition of the news, Goodnight. G R: Silent night holy night D G all is calm all is bright C G round you Virgin Mother and child C G holy infant so tender and mild D G D G sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace ...

8 4. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel / Felice & Bye Bye Love ...... 2 Boudleaux Bryant 1. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel A Hazy Shade Of Winter ...... 1 2. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel America ...... 1 3. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel At the Zoo...... 2 5. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Bookends ...... 2 6. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water ...... 3 7. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Cecilia ...... 3 8. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel El Condor Pasa...... 3 9. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel For Emily Whenever I May Find Her ...... 3 10. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Homeward Bound ...... 4 11. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel I Am a Rock ...... 4 12. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Kathy’s Song ...... 4 13. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Keep the Customer Satisfied ...... 5 14. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson ...... 5 15. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Old Friends ...... 6 16. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Scarborough Fair - Canticle ...... 6 23. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Seven O’Clock News (Silent Night) ...... 8 17. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Song For the Asking ...... 6 18. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Sound Of Silence ...... 6 19. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel The Boxer ...... 7 20. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel The Only Living Boy In New York ...... 7 22. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Wednesday Morning 3 a.m...... 8 21. simgar The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) ...... 7

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