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Simon & Garfunkel – Song for the Asking
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[Verse 1] / Here is my song for the asking / Ask me and I will play / So sweetly, I'll make you smile / This is my tune for the taking / Take it, don't turn away / I've been
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Simon & Garfunkel – Song for the asking - live version
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Here is my song for the asking / Ask me and I will play / So sweetly, I'll make you smile / This is my tune for the taking / Take it, don't turn away / I've been waiting all my
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Leslie Odom Jr. (Ft. Nicolette Robinson) – Song for the Asking
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[Leslie Odom Jr.] / Here is my song for the asking / Ask me and I will play / So sweetly, I'll make you smile / [Leslie Odom Jr. & Nicolette Robinson] / This is my tune for the
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Mary Travers – Song for the Asking
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Here is my song for the asking / Ask me and I will play / So sweetly, I'll make you smile / This is my tune for the taking / Take it, don't turn away / I've been waiting all my
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
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“The Boxer” is considered one of Paul Simon’s masterpieces, telling the story of a young boy who laments his poverty and then turning to that of a boxer.
It was first suggested
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boygenius – Cool About It
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[Verse 1: Baker] / Met you at the dive bar to go shoot some pool / And make fun of the cowboys with the neck tattoos / Ask you easy questions about work and school / [Chorus: Baker
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
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This track about the inability of people to communicate emotionally, was thought by many to be a response to the Kennedy assassination as it was written during the same time and
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Simon & Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball (Live)
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I should have known you'd bid me farewell / There's a lesson to be learned from this / And I learned it very well / Now I know you're not / The only starfish in the sea / If I
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Simon & Garfunkel (Ft. Los Incas) – El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
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While touring in Paris, Paul Simon heard the Peruvian ensemble Los Incas play “El Cóndor Pasa” (“The condor goes by”, or “flies past”; a song from the 1913 zarzuela (musical play
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Simon & Garfunkel – My Little Town
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“My Little Town” was written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. It appeared as the second song on Simon’s solo album “Still Crazy After All These Years” and as the sixth song on
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Simon & Garfunkel – Star Carol
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Long years ago, on a deep winter night / High in the heavens, a star shone bright / While in the manger, a wee baby lay / Sweetly asleep, on a bed of hay / Jesus our lord, was that
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Paul Simon – The Boxer
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A Simon and garfunkel song – lyrics and annotations here.
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Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
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“Bridge over Troubled Water” is the titular song of Simon & Garfunkel’s album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live
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Simon & Garfunkel – Baby Driver
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An incredibly out-of-character song by Paul Simon. Departing from his typically mellow, story-based love songs, Baby Driver is a plainly-worded song about having sex with an
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Simon & Garfunkel – Save the Life of My Child
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[Verse 1] / "Good God! Don't jump!" A boy sat on the ledge / An old man who had fainted was revived (He's alright) / And everyone agreed it would be a miracle indeed / If the boy
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Simon & Garfunkel – Comfort and Joy
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God rest ye merry gentlemen / Let nothing you dismay / Remember Christ our savior / Was born on Christmas Day / To save us all from Satan's power / When we we're gone astray / Oh
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man (Live)
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He was a most peculiar man / That's what Mrs. Reardon says, and she should know / She lived upstairs from him / She said he was a most peculiar man / He was a most peculiar man
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Simon & Garfunkel – Keep the Customer Satisfied
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“Keep the Customer Satisfied” by Paul Simon appears on the 1970 Simon and Garfunkel album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. This may be the only Rockabilly numbers they ever recorded
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Simon & Garfunkel – Bye, Bye Love (Live)
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Bye bye love / Bye bye happiness / Hello loneliness / I think I'm gonna cry / Bye bye love / Bye bye sweet caress / Hello emptiness / I feel like I could die / Bye bye love
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York
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This is a fairly opaque message from Paul Simon to Art Garfunkel, detailing his loneliness when Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22.
Peter Ames Carlin writes in
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Simon & Garfunkel – Feuilles-O
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Feuilles oh, sauvez la vie moi, J'ai de la misère oh / Feuilles oh, sauvez la vie moi, J'ai de la misère oh / Pitie moi malade, Je cours à la maison du gangan Similo / Pitie moi
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Simon & Garfunkel – Bye Bye Love
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“Bye Bye Love” is a popular song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957. It is best known in a debut recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by Cadence
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Simon & Garfunkel – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
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“So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright” is a song written by Paul Simon that was originally released on Simon & Garfunkel’s 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. It has since been released
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer - (El Boxeador)
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I am just a poor boy / Though my story 's seldom told, i have squandered my resistence for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises / All lies and jests / Still a man hears what
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Simon & Garfunkel – The boxer - live version
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I am just a poor boy / Though my story's seldom told / I have squandered my resistance / For a pocketful of mumbles / Such are promises / All lies and jest / Still, a man hears
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Simon & Garfunkel – Why Don't You Write Me
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[Verse 1] / Why don't you write me? / I'm out in the jungle / I'm hungry to hear you / Send me a card / I am waiting so hard / To be near you / (La, la, la) / Why don't you write
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Mumford & Sons (Ft. Jerry Douglas & Paul Simon) – The Boxer
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Mumford & Sons cover Simon & Garfunkel’s classic ballad of misplaced anger and powerlessness. The song also appeared on Jerry Douglas’s album Traveller. Douglas, an unparalleled
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Single Version)
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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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Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (Demo Take 6)
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When you're weary, feeling small / When tears are in your eyes / I will dry them all / I'm on your side / When times get rough / And friends just can't be found / Like a bridge
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Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
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The lead single off of Paul Simon’s album Graceland, “You Can Call Me Al” was a hit in the UK in September 1986. In the US, the song originally found only moderate success, peaking
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Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
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“Cecilia” is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. When released as a single, it reached #4 in
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Jerry Douglas (Ft. Mumford & Sons & Paul Simon) – The Boxer
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I am just a poor boy / Though my story seldom told / I squandered my resistance / For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises / All lies and jests / Still a man hears / What he
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Bob Dylan – The Boxer
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From the album that was famously reviewed by Rolling Stone with the line “What is this shit?”, “The Boxer” is a bizarre cover version of the Simon and Garfunkel song. It’s a duet
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