You Can Call Me Al Paul Simon http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/paul_simon/you_can_call_me_al_ver2_tab.htm

Paul Simon (metonymo tab)

Chords:

F 133211

C/g 332010

Bb/g 3x3333 (tumb, plus barre with index finger)

Gm 3x0333 (tumb, plus barre with index finger)

^ Strum down

v Strum upwards

For the triplet bass notes:

Bb/g and Gm: barre with index finger, and thumb holds e-string and mutes a-string.

Also faster to play the F chord with tumb on the e-string.

May be easier to play in G, so at the bottom I ve included a version in G.

(although the main challenge is not the chords, but the rhythm/ strumming pattern

(see tab upstroke "v"/downstroke "^"), and integrating rhytm and singing.)

Intro and ref.

("If you'll be my bodyguard...")

F C C Bb F C C F

|--------1-------0------0--------|---------1------0------0-----1--|

|--------1-------1------1-----3--|---------1------1------1-----1--|

|--------2-------0------0-----3--|---------2------0------0-----2--|

|----------------2------2-----3--|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

F C C Bb F C C F

|---------1-------0-----0--------|---------1-------0-----0-----1--|

|---------1-------1-----1-----3--|---------1-------1-----1-----1--|

|*--------2-------0-----0-----3--|---------2-------0-----0-----2-*|

|*--------3-------2-----2-----3--|---------3-------2-----2-----3-*|

|--------------------------------|-----------------3-----------3--|

|-1-1-1--------------------------|-3-3-3--------------------------|

Vers, part I

("A man walks down the street..."):

F C F Gm F C

|--------1---0---0---0---1---1---|--------3---1---1---1---0---0--|

|--------1---1---1---1---1---1---|--------3---1---1---1---1---1--|

|*-------2---0---0---0---2---2---|--------3---2---2---2---0---0-*|

|*-------3-------2-------3-------|--------0-------3-------2-----*|

|--------3-------3-------3-------|----------------3-------3------|

|-1-1-1--------------------------|-3-3-3-------------------------|

^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v

Variation for part I (Chords instead of triplet bass):

F C F Gm F C

|-1---1---1---0---0---0---1---1---|-3---3---3---1---1---1---0---0--|

|-1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---|-3---3---3---1---1---1---1---1--|

|*2---2---2---0---0---0---2---2---|-3---3---3---2---2---2---0---0-*|

|*3-------3-------2-------3-------|-0-------0-------3-------2-----*|

|-3-------3-------3-------3-------|-----------------3-------3------|

|---------------------------------|-3-------3----------------------|

^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v

Vers, part II

(from "Bonedigger" to ref.):

F Gm C/g

|----------1---1---------1---1---|----------3---3---------0---0---|

|----------1---1---------1---1---|----------3---3---------1---1---|

|*---------2---2---------2---2---|----------3---2---------0---0--*|

|*---------3-------------3-------|----------0-------------2------*|

|----------3--------3----3-------|-------------------3----3-------|

|-1-1-1-------------1------------|-3-3-3------------(3)-----------|

^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v

Bone-digger, bone-digger Dogs in the moon-light

Intro: F C C Bb / F C C F

F C F

A man walks down the street

Gm F C

He says why am I soft in the middle now

Why am I soft in the middle

The rest of my life is so hard

I need a photo-opportunity

I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

F

Bonedigger, bonedigger

Gm C

Dogs in the moonlight

Far away my

well-lit door

Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly

Get these mutts away from me

You know I don't find this stuff

amusing anymore

F C C Bb

If you'll be my bodyguard

F C C F

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty when you call me

You can call me Al

A man walks down the street

He says why am I short of attention

Got a short little span of attention

And wo my nights are so long

Where's my wife and family

What if I die here

Who'll be my role-model

Now that my role-model is

Gone, gone

He ducked back down the alley

With some roly-poly little

bat-faced girl

All along, along

There were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations ...

Ref.

A man walks down the street

It's a street in a strange world

Maybe it's the Third World

Maybe it's his first time around

He doesn't speak the language

He holds no currency

He is a foreign man

He is surrounded by

The sound, the sound

Cattle in the marketplace

Scatterlings and orphanages ...

He looks around, around

He sees angels in the architecture

Spinning in infinity

He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

Ref.

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Transposed to G:

(strumming pattern in tab above)

Intro: G D D C / G D D G

G D G

A man walks down the street

Am G D

He says why am I soft in the middle now ...

G

Bonedigger, bonedigger

Am D

Dogs in the moonlight ...

G D D C

If you'll be my bodyguard

G D D G

I can be your long lost pal ...