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