Considerado um dos grandes interprétes da alma norte-americana, captando com sensibilidade as contradições do homem urbano, iniciou sua carreira na década de 60, ao lançar, junto com o seu parceiro Art Garfunkel, o disco Wednesday Morning (1964), que continha a clássica faixa The sound of silence, tida por muitos como a melhor de seu repertório. Esse disco não fez sucesso imediato e a dupla Simon & Garfunkel foi desfeita momentaneamente. Antes
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Artist: Paul Simon Song: The Only Living Boy In New York (live and acoustic) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrh5n0WEXI Transcription: SCA, [email protected]
Note: The horizontal lines are there to help you with the timing. Watch the video in the link above. He doesn't play 'Esus4'. It's optional.
Tuning: standard Capo: 3rd fret (in some versions 4th fret)
Verse: GC Tom, get your plane right on time GC * I know your part'll go fine G |CC/BAmAm/G| Fly down to Mexico D/F#C Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da and here I am |GCC/BAm7| G The only living boy in New York
Verse: GC I get the news I need from the weather report GC I can gather all the news I need from the weather report G |CC/BAmAm/G | Hey, I've got nothing to do to-day but smile D/F#C Do-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da-n here I am |GC | The only living boy in New York
Break: |EEsus4E| |AmD7/F#| Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know GC Where, and we don't know where
Verse: GC Tom, get your plane right on time GC I know that you've been eager to fly now G |CC/BAmAm/G| Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine now, D/F#C Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-do like it shines on me |GC| G The only living boy in New York |GC| G The only living boy in New York
Ending: GC A ha a ha a ah ah aha ah ah ah GC A ha a ha a ah ah aha ah ah ah G |CC/BAmAm/G| A ha a ha a ah ah aha ah ah ah D/F#C A ha a ha a ah ah aha ah ah ah |GC| G A ha here I am |GC| G A ha here I am
Note II: He often does hammer-ons and pull-offs, for example where the star sign is he does something like this: * e-|--0-0---0-----0---0-------| B-|--1-1---1-----1---1-------| G-|--0-0---0h2p0-0---0-------| D-|--2-0h2-0-----0h2-2-------| A-|--3-3---3-----3---3-------| E-|--------------------------|
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