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Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Track: Old Friends

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Old friends, old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears
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Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends
[Verse 1: Paul Simon] / Old friends / Old friends / Sat on their park bench like bookends / A newspaper blown through the grass / Falls on the round toes of the high shoes / Of the
Simon & Garfunkel – Old friend/ bookends
Old friends / Old friends / Sat on their park bench / Like bookends / A newspaper blown through the grass / Falls on the round toes / Of the high shoes / Of the old friends / Old
Pinegrove – Old Friends
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Dream Junkies – Old Friends
Samples “Old Friends” by Simon and Garfunkel.
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Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends - Demo
Old friends / Old friends / Sat on their park bench like bookends / A newspaper blown through the grass / Falls on the round toes / Of the high shoes / Of the old friends / Old
Jimmy Webb – Old Friends
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French The Kid – Old Friends
[Intro] / Lxcid, this beat brazy / Tanz, why you drip so hard? / [Chorus] / I'm stuck in my dream, yeah / Cos I seen the highs, I seen the lows, I seen the fiends / I got old
Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends (Live)
Old friends, old friends sat on their parkbench like bookends / A newspaper blowin' through the grass / Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends / Old friends
Marissa Nadler – Old Friends/Bookends
Old friends, old friends / Sat on their park bench like bookends / A newspaper blowin' through the grass / Falls on the round toes on the high shoes of the old friends / Old
Sutton Foster (Ft. Megan McGinnis) – Old Friends / Bookends
[Both, Sutton Foster, Megan McGinnis] / Old friends / Old friends / Sat on their park bench like bookends / The newspaper blown through the grass / The newspaper falls on the round
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Single Version)
Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / Because a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping / And the vision that was planted in my
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Ben Rector – Old Friends
[Verse 1] / I can still find Wiley's house / Riding on my bike with eyes closed / I can name every girl that he took out / And from my memory, dial his house phone / [Chorus] / Can
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Remix)
Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / Because a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping / And the vision that was planted in my
Rancid – Old Friend
[Chorus] / Good mornin' heartache / You're like an old friend / Come and see me again, I said, uh / Good mornin' heartache / You're like an old friend / Come and see me again, I
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F.S.Blumm & Lucrecia Dalt – Old Amigos
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St Vizual – Hello Darkness My Old Friend
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Nick & Simon – Sound Of Silence - Live In Carré
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Hello daylight, my old friend / I've gone and done it yet again / And in the early morning light I see / A Hufflepuff boy sleeping next to me / Last night he seemed cute but now I'
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Lyrics for Old Friends by Simon & Garfunkel. Old friends, old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through t...
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Q:When did Simon & Garfunkel release “Old Friends”?
Simon & Garfunkel released “Old Friends” on April 3, 1968.
Q:What is the most popular album by Simon & Garfunkel?
The most popular album by Simon & Garfunkel is Old Friends with a total of 4.8M page views.
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Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, teacher and actor. He is best known for his partnership in his earlier years with Paul Simon in what has