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