Chords for Paul Simon - The Late Great Johnny Ace

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_ _ [Ab] _ [G] I was reading a magazine and thinking of [D] a rock and roll song.
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[Gm] The year was [Cm] [D] 1954 _ [G] and I [C] hadn't been [G] playing that long.
[C] When a [F] man came on [C] the radio _ and [F] this is what [Bb] he said.
_ [Am] _ _ [Dm] He said I hate to break [E] it to his fans [Am] but Johnny [F] Ace is dead.
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] Well _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] I really [G] wasn't such a Johnny Ace [Ab] fan but I felt bad [D] all the same.
So [Ab] I sent away [C]
for his [D] photograph [G] and I waited till it came.
[C] It came all [F] the way [C] from Texas _ [F] with a sad and simple [Bb] _ face.
[Am] _ _ [Dm] And they signed it [E] on the bottom [Am] from the late great Johnny [F] Ace.
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was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Sloanes.
It was _ 1964, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I was [Gm]
living in [Fm] [Eb] London with [C] a girl [G] [Gm] from the [C] song [Gb] we fought.
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was _ [C] the [Gm] year of [C] the Beatles, it was the year of the Sloanes.
The [Gm] year [C] after JFK.
[F] _ [C] _ We _ _ _ were staying [G] [Fm] up [Eb] all night [C] and [G] giving [Gm] the [G] days [F] away.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] And the music [Abm] was flowing _ [Eb] _ amazing. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] On a cold [D] December evening I [Ab] was walking through the Christmas [D] time.
_ [Ab] When a stranger came up [D] and asked me [G] if I heard John Lennon die.
And [C] the [F] two of us went [C] to this bar _ [F] and we stayed to close [Bb] the _ _ [Am] place.
_ [D] And every song we [E] played was [Am] the late great [F] Johnny Ace.
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