Paul Simon - You can call me Al

	
F       C     F
  A man walks down the street

       |Gm       F           C         |
He says why am I soft in the middle now

F        C F      
  Why am I soft in the middle

   |Gm         F          C  F   |
The    rest of my life is so hard

        C F                |
 I need a photo-opportunity

Gm        F           C       |
   I want a shot at redemption

F                 C    F  
Don't want to end up a cartoon

    |Gm      F    C   |
In a cartoon graveyard

F                    |
Bonedigger Bonedigger

Gm             C        |
   Dogs in the moonlight

F            |Gm       C  
  Far away my well-lit door

      |F                  |
Mister Beerbelly Beerbelly

Gm               C          |
Get these mutts away from me

F                         |Gm            C|
  I don't find this stuff amusing anymore


          F     C        Bb|
If you'll be my bodyguard

      F       C    F   |    C Bb| F C F|
I can be your long lost  pal

               C
I can call you Betty

Bb |      F        C
And Betty when you call me

F      |          C Bb| F C F|
You can call me Al


F       C     F
  A man walks down the street

       |Gm     F            C       
He says why am I short of attention

     |F          C   F      
Got a   short little span of attention

   |Gm    F             C  F   |
And    oh my nights are so long

         C  F              |
 Where's my wife and family

Gm         F     C   |
   What if I die here

F           C  F         |
  Who'll be my role-model

Gm          F         C    |
Now that my   role-model is

C
Gone Gone

  |Gm                   C   
He ducked back down the alley

         |F                 |Gm        C  
With some   roly-poly little bat-faced girl

    |F    
All along along

          |Gm            C        
There were incidents and accidents

          |F            |Gm     C|
There were hints and allegations


          F     C        Bb|
If you'll be my bodyguard

      F       C    F   |    C Bb| F C F|
I can be your long lost  pal

               C
I can call you Betty

Bb |      F        C
And Betty when you call me

F      |     C  Bb| F 
You can call me Al

C      F    | C Bb | F C F | C Bb | F C F |
  Call me Al



F       C     F
  A man walks down the street

      |Gm        F         C    |
It's a street in a strange world

F            C   F          |
  Maybe it's the Third World

Gm            F              C F    |
   Maybe it's his first time a-round

               C   F                
 Doesn't speak the language

  |Gm    F        C |
He holds no currency

F       C F          |
  He is a foreign man

Gm       F       C     |F
He is surrounded by the sound

         |
The sound

Gm            C          |
Cattle in the marketplace

F                          |Gm         
Scatterlings and orphanages

C          |F                 
  He looks around, around

       |Gm            C           |
He sees angels in the architecture

F                       
Spinning in infinity

       |Gm        C          |
He says Amen! and Halleluiah!



          F     C        Bb|
If you'll be my bodyguard

      F       C    F   |    C Bb| F C F|
I can be your long lost  pal

               C
I can call you Betty

Bb |      F        C
And Betty when you call me

F      |     C  Bb| F 
You can call me Al

C      F   
  Call me. 

F    C  F    |Gm       F  C |
  Na na na na    na na na na
  
F    C  F    |Gm      F    C  F |
  Na na na na    Na na  na na na

F      |Gm C |F      |Gm C |
Hm, hm,         hm hm

F      |Gm C |F      |Gm C F |Tacet |  Hm, hm,         hm hm


| F C Bb| F C F | C Bb|F C |

 F C Bb| F C F | C Bb|F C |


Repeat and fade:

          F     C        Bb | F C F| C Bb| F C F|
If you'll be my bodyguard

               C    Bb | F C F| C Bb| F C F|
I can call you Betty