Old Friends  - Simon And Garfunkel

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>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





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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





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