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Old Friends ( Paul Simon )

from the Bookends album 1968

Transcribed by : Jean-Marc Orliaguet

( jmo@fy.chalmers.se, http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo )

Capo 4th fret

Old friends Old friends

sat on their park bench like bookends A

news - pa - per blown through the grass falls on the

round toes of the high shoes of the

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Old friends

Old friends win - ter com - pa - nions the

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old men Lost in their o - ver - coats

wait - ing for the sun - set the

sounds of the city sifting through trees settle like

dust on the shoulders of the

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Old friends

Can you i - ma - gine us years from to - day

sharing a park bench quietly how

ter - ri - bly strange to be seventy

Old friends mem - o - ry bru - shes the

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same years si - lent - ly sha - ring the

same fears

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to Bookends Theme ...

Lyrics :

Old friends, old friends,

Sat on their parkbench like bookends

A newspaper blown through the grass

Falls on the round toes

of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men

Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun

The sounds of the city sifting through trees

Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,

Sharing a parkbench quietly

How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,

Silently sharing the same fears

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