Paul Simon, Graceland (1986)
Key: :[F] (w: Paul Simon)
INTRO: [F] [A#] [Dm] [C] [F]
VERSE 1:
The
[F] Mississippi Delta was shining like a National gui-
[A#]-tar
I am
[Dm] following the river, down the highway, through the cradle of the civil
[C] war
CHORUS:
[A#] I'm going to
[F] Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis Tennes-
[A#]-see
I'm going to
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
[F] Poor boys and Pilgrims with families
and
[A#] we are going to
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
BRIDGE 1:
My
[F] traveling companion is nine years
[A#] old, he is the
[F] child of mv first marriage ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
But I've
[F] reason to believe, we both will be re-
[A#]-ceived in
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
VERSE 2:
She comes
[F] back to tell me she's gone, as
[A#] if I didn't know that, as if I didn't know my own
[Dm] bed,
as
[C] if I'd never noticed, the way she brushed her hair from her
[F] forehead
PRE-CHORUS:
And she said
[F] losing love is like a window in your
[A#] heart
Everybody sees you're
[Dm] blown apart, everybody sees
[C] the wind blow
CHORUS:
[A#] I'm going to
[F] Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis Tennes-
[A#]-see
I'm going to
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
[F] Poor boys and Pilgrims with families
and
[A#] we are going to
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
BRIDGE 2:
My
[F] traveling companions are ghosts and empty
[A#] sockets
I'm
[F] looking at ghosts and empties ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
But I've
[F] reason to believe, we both will be re-
[A#]-ceived, in
[F] Graceland ^
[F]^
[D#]^
[A#]
VERSE 3:
There is a
[F] girl in New York City, who calls herself the human trampo-
[A#]-line
And
[Dm] sometimes when I'm falling, flying, or tumbling in turmoil I say
[C] Oh, so this is what she means, she means we're bouncing into
[F] Graceland
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS:
REPEAT CHORUS:
OUTRO: [F] [A#] [Dm] [C] [F]
