Old friends
Chords for "Old Friends"
Words & music by Paul Simon 1968
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7
Old friends,
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7
Old friends,
Fm7 Bb7
Sat on their park bench
Eb
Like bookends.
Cm Fm7 Bb
A newspaper blown though the grass
Cm
Falls on the round toes
Ebmaj7
Of the high shoes
Ab Eb6 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7
Of the old friends.
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 |
Old friends,
Fm7 Bb7
Winter companions,
|Abmaj7 Gm |
The old men
Fm7 Bb7 |
Lost in their overcoats,
Eb Fm7 |Cm
Waiting for the sunset.
|Fm7 Bb7 |
The sounds of the city,
Gm7 Cm |
Sifting through trees,
Bb |
Settle like dust
|Ab
On the shoulders
|Eb6 | |
Of the old friends.
Fm7 Bb7 |
Can you imagine us
Ebmaj7 |
Years from today,
Ab Abm |Eb
Sharing a park bench quietly?
|Fm7 Bb7
How terribly strange
|Cm |
To be seventy.
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 |
Old friends,
Fm7 Bb7 |Abmaj7 Gm7 |
Memory brushes the same years
Fm7 Bb7 |Eb6 Cm | |
Silently sharing the same fears
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 |Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 |