Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends/Bookends, Homeward Bound, 2003

_ Ladies and gentlemen, _ Simon and Garfunkel. _ _ _ _ _
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Oh!
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[Ab] Oh! _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ Plant in the first row.
[C] _ _ Ron Delsner, plant in the first row.
Now we're supposed to be serious?
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] Ronnie, every show.
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ You're gonna steal the show.
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] Old _ friend, _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ old _ [Eb] _ friend. _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [Bb] Sat on their [C] park [Dm] bench [Eb] like _ _ _ [Cm] bookends.
_ [Bb] [F] A newspaper [Eb] _ blown through [Bb] the grass.
_ Falls hard [Cm] around. _ _
_ _ [Gm] Of the high sheds [Ab] of the _ [Eb] old friend.
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[Ab] _ _ Old [Eb] _ friend. _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] Winter companions, the _ [Eb] old men.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] [Eb] Lost in their _ _ overcoats waiting _ for [Cm] the sun. _ _ _ _
The sounds [Bb] of the city _ sifting through [Cm] _ trees.
Settle [Bb] like dust _ on [Ab] the shoulders _ _ of the old [Eb] friend.
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_ [Ab] _ Can [Eb] you imagine us years from [Cm] _ today? _
Sharing [Bb] a park [Eb] bench _ quietly.
_ _ _ [Fm] How terribly [Bb] _ _ [C] strange to be seventy. _
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] Old _ friends.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Memory [Eb] brushes [Bb] _ [Ab] the _ [Eb] same _ years.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] Silently _ [Eb] sharing the _ _ same _ [Cm] fear. _ _ _ _ _
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[Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Fm] Time it was and what a time it was, it was.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
A time [Ab] of innocence. _
_ A [Eb] time of confidence.
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Long ago it must be.
_ I have [Eb] a _ photograph. _ _ _ _ _ _
Preserve [Ab] your _ _ memories. _ _
They're all [Eb] that's left here.
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Thank you very much.
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I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ sitting in a railway station.
[F] Got a [Bb] ticket for my destination. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] On _ _ _ a [Cm] _ _ tour of one night [Ebm] stands [Ab] my suitcase and guitar in hand.
[Bb] And every stop is neatly planned [F] for a poet and a one man [Bb] _ band. _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] Homeward bound. _
_ I wish [Bb] I was. _
_ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] Homeward bound.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Home where my thoughts [Ab] are [Eb] skipping.
[Bb] _ _ Home where [Cm] my [Ab] music's [Bb] playing.
_ Home [Fm] where my love [Ab] lies [Gm] [Bb] waiting _ [F] silently [Bb] for me. _ _ _
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_ _ Every day's an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines.
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
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And each [Cm] town looks the same [Gm] to me.
[Ab] The movies and the factories.
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And every _ stranger's face I see [F]
reminds me that I long to be [Bb] _ homeward bound. _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ Oh, I [Bb] wish I _ _ _ was. _
[Eb] Homeward bound.
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_ Home where my thoughts are [Ab] [Eb] skipping.
[Bb] _ Home [F] where my [Bb] [Fm] music's [Eb]
[Bb] playing.
_ Home where [C] my love [Ab] [Gm] lies waiting [F] _ silently for [Bb] me.
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[F] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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_ Tonight I'll sing my songs again.
[D] I'll play [F] the game and pretend.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] But all my words come back to [Eb] me [Ab] in shades of _ mediocrity.
_ [Bb] Like emptiness in harmony.
I [F] need someone to comfort [Bb] me.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Homeward bound.
_ _ I [F] wish [Bb] I _ _ _ _ was.
[Eb] Homeward bound.
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Home where my [Ab] thoughts are [Eb] skipping.
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Home [Cm] where my music's playing.
[Bb] _
_ Home where [Cm] my love [Ab] lies [Gm]
[Bb] waiting _ silently for me.
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[Dm] _ _ Silently _ [Fm] for [Bb] me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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