Old Friends

Old Friends  - Simon And Garfunkel
~~~~~~~~~~~
>From "Bookends".
Transcribed and tabbed by John Kean (keanj@agresearch.cri.nz).

NB. Doesn't include the orchestral bit!

Capo 4th fret.


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Old   friends       Old   friends       Sat on their park bench like


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bookends         A newspaper blown through the grass     falls on the


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round toes   Of the high shoes   Of the old friends


9/8, . . , . . , . .   ,   .   .   ,   .   . 9/8, . . , . . , . .
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Old   friends       Winter   companions  the old   men


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Lost in their overcoats   waiting for the sunset             The


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sounds of the city    sifting through trees       Settle like


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dust         On the shoulders    Of the old friends


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Can you imagine us  years from today   Sharing a park bench


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quietly?        How terrible strange to be    seventy...


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Old   friends       Memory      brushes the  same  years


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Silently    sharing the   same        fears


9/8, . . , . . , . .6/8, . . , . .   , . . , . .
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