Old Friends
(Live)
Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends - Bookends (live Central Park)
Capo on fourth fret
Intro:
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Old friends
Verse:
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sat on their park bench like bookends
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A news- pa- per blown through the grass falls on the
Am Em/g
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round toes of the high shoes of the
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Old friends
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Old friends win - ter com - pa - nions the
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Old men Lost in their o - ver - coats
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wai- ting for the sun The
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sounds of the city sifting through trees settles like
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dust on the shoulders of the
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Old friends
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Can you i - ma - gine us years from to - day
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sharing a park bench quietly how
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ter - ri - bly strange to be seventy
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Old friends mem - o - ry bru - shes the
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same years si - lent- ly sha - ring the
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same fears
Bookends:
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CDFC
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Time it was and what a time it was it was
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a time of in - no - cence a time of con - fi - den - ces
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Lon a - go it must be I have a Phot- to - graph
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Pre - serve your me - mo - ries they're all that's left you
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