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You Can Call Me Al [G] - Paul Simon

Intro + Kazoo:
F Bb C     F Bb C    
F Bb C     F Bb C
 
Verse 1:
F                                  Bb        C
 A man walks down the street, says  why am I  soft in the middle now,
F                                 Bb          C
 why am I soft in the middle, the  rest of my  life is so hard,
F                            Bb        C
 I need a photo-opportunity,  I want a  shot at redemption,
F                                    Bb       C
 dont want to end up a cartoon, in a  cartoon  graveyard,
F                        Bb           C
 bonedigger, bonedigger,  dogs in the  moonlight, 
F            Bb            
 far away my  well-lit door, (C)
F                          Bb               C
 Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly,  get these mutts  away from me,
F                                    Bb           
 you know I don't find this stuff amusing no more (C)
 
 
|[Chorus]
|F                           Bb             C              
| If you'll be my bodyguard,  I can be your  long lost pal (F) (Bb) (C)
|F                         Bb              C                  F          
| I can call you Betty and  Betty when you  call me,  you can  call me AL. (Bb) (C)
 
Intro + Kazoo:
F Bb C     F Bb C    
F Bb C     F Bb C

Verse 2:
F                                     Bb        C
 A man walks down the street, he says  why am I  short of attention,
F                                          Bb       C
 got a short little span of attention, and  woah my  nights are so long,
F                           Bb         C
 wheres my wife and family,  what if I  die here,
F                         Bb           C
 who'll be my role-model,  now that my  role-model is
F               Bb                    C
 gone, gone, he  ducked back down the  alley with some
F                 Bb             
 roly-poly little  bat-faced girl, (C)
F                            Bb             C
 all along, along there were  incidents and  accidents,
           F                             
there were  hints and allegations (Bb) (C)

|[Chorus]
|F                           Bb             C              
| If you'll be my bodyguard,  I can be your  long lost pal (F) (Bb) (C)
|F                         Bb              C                  F          
| I can call you Betty and  Betty when you  call me,  you can  call me AL. (Bb) (C)

Intro + Kazoo:
F Bb C     F Bb C    
F Bb C     F Bb C 
 
Verse 3:
F                                   Bb           C
 A man walks down the street, its a  street in a  strange world,
F                           Bb             C
 maybe its the Third World,  maybe its his  first time around,
F                              Bb        C
 doesnt speak the language, he  holds no  currency,
F                     Bb     C
 he is a foreign man,  he is  surrounded by
F                      Bb             C
 the sound, the sound,  cattle in the  marketplace,
F                          
 scatterlings and orphanages (Bb) (C)
         F                        Bb             C
he looks  around, around, he sees  angels in the  architecture,
F                              Bb   C
 spinning in infinity, he says  Hey  Hallelujah!

[Chorus]

F             Bb     C          F             Bb     C
 Na na na na,  na na  na na na,  Na na na na,  na na  na na na na
F             Bb     C          F             Bb     C
 Na na na na,  na na  na na na,  Na na na na,  na na  na na na na

Intro + Kazoo:
F Bb C     F Bb C    
F Bb C     F Bb C
C

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