Chords for Paul Simon "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war" Seattle 18-05-18

of all my songs.
[D] It's uh_
It's called May in Georgia.
The Week.
_ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Anyway, I'll tell you how
[C] how the title came about.
[G] I was doing [Fm] a festival [D#] in
California [C] for
June [D#] Baez and his sister.
_ [C] _ _ [D#] The festival was [G] called
Red and Roses.
And [C] a gentleman and I were gonna sing
[D] something together so I was
at her house and we were gonna rehearse.
She had to
_ [G] she had to take a phone
call.
And so
_ while I
was waiting for her I took a book down from
[C#] her shelf and it was a book
of the [C] painting of Rene Magritte.
Magritte's surrealist.
_ [B] And I'm looking through the
[D#] _ picture and the [D] paintings
and there's [D#] a photograph
there and it says Rene [C] and Georgette.
[D] Georgette Magritte with [E] their dog
after the war.
And I think,
what a great title.
[D] _ _ _
_ _ _ What could that song possibly be [D#] about?
_ [C#m] _ [C] And then I thought,
[G] well it's a surrealist painter so
_ [B] I'll make a
surrealist song.
So I
added in [G] all these
[C#] vocal
[A#] groups [G#] from the 50s that [G] I
love.
The penguins and the [C#] moonblows.
_ _ [C] And _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ that's how
the song came [N] about. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Rene
and [B] Georgette Magritte
[E] with their dog after the war. _ _
_ _ _ _ Return to their hotel [D] suite.
_ [B] Unlock [A] the door. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] Easily losing
[B] their evening clothes.
They [A] dance
for the night [Bm] of the moon.
_ _ [A] _ _
[G#m] To the [E] _ penguins,
[C#] the _ moonblows,
the _ orioles,
the fire _ sacks,
[E] the deep forbidden [C#m] music. _ _ [A] They've been long before.
[A] _ _ _
Rene [F#m] and
Georgette [B] Magritte with their
dog [E] after the war. _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] Rene
and Georgette [B] Magritte
with their dog after [E] the war. _ _ _ _
[E] We're strolling [D#] down Christopher [D] Street.
[C#] We stopped on the [C#m] next door. _ _ _ _
[D#] With all
of the mannequins
[C#m] dressed in the style
that brought tears to their younger [B] guys. _ _
[F#m] _ _ [G#m] Just like the penguins,
[C#] the moonblows,
_ the orioles, _
the fire sacks.
[E] The easiest [D#] stream [C#m] of laughter floating
through the air.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] Rene and
Georgette [B] Magritte with
their [E] dog after the [E] war.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ Side by [B] side
they [F#] fell [G#m] asleep.
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
Decades
[G#m] gliding by like the [F#] moon's [C#m] timeless chill.
_ [F#] _ _ [F#m] When
they [E] wake
up, [B] they [B] will [E] find
_ _ [F#] all _ [B] their personal [G#] belongings have
[A] _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ intertwined.
[F#m] Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Rene [D] and Georgette
[B] Magritte [A] with their dog
after the [E] war. _ _ _
_ _ We're dining [D#] with the power elite.
[D] [B] And they're peaked
in their [A] bedroom drawer. _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] What mistakes [F#] they found
[E] hidden away [A] in the
cabinet cold [F#] of their hearts. _ _ _ _
_ The [G#] _ penguins,
_ [G#m]
the [D#m] moonblows,
_ _ _ the [C#m] orioles,
_ _ _ _ and [B] the fire sacks.
_ _ _ _ Four [E] now _ and ever after
[E]
as it was [A] before.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ Rene [C#] and Georgette Magritte
[B] with their [D] dog
_ [C#] after the war. _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _
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