Duncan

Recien separado de Garfunkel, Paul Simon se embarca en una gira con el grupo Los Incas, renombrados como Urubamba por problemas legales, con los que habia quedado deslumbrado en Paris en 1965. De aquella gira se editó en 1973 el disco Live Rhymin' con algunas canciones en la que intervine el grupo de Jorge Milchberg, con Jorge Cumbo, Emilio Arteaga y Uña Ramos.

Duncan

Words & music by Paul Simon 1971

Em |
Couple in the next room
D
Bound to win a prize
|G A |D
they've been goin' at it all night long
|C |G
Well I'm tryin' to get some sleep
|C G
but these motel walls are cheap
|C G
Lincoln Duncan is my name

|D |Em | |
and here's my song, here's my song

My father was a fisherman
|D
my mama was a fisherman's friend
|G A |D
and I was born in the boredom and the chowder
|C G
So when I reached my prime
|C G |
I left my home in the maritimes
C G |D |Em |
headed down the turnpike for New England, sweet New England

C |G |C |G |C |G Em|D |Em | |
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Holes in my confidence
D
holes in the knees of my jeans
|G A |D |
I's left without a penny in my pocket
C G |
Oo-o wee I's about as
C G
destituted as a kid could be
|C G
And I wish I wore a ring
|D |Em |
so I could hock it I'd like to hock it
|Em
A young girl in a parking lot
|D
was preaching to a crowd
|G
singin sacred songs and
A |D
reading from the bible
|C G
Well I told her I was lost
|C G
and she told me all about the Pentecost
|C G |D |Em
And I seen that girl as the road to my survi-ival

C |G |C |G |C |G Em|D |Em | |

Just later on the very same night
|D
when I crept to her tent with a flashlight
|G A |D
and my long years of innocence ended
|C G |
Well she took me to the woods sayin'
C G
"Here comes somethin' and it feels so good!"
|C G |D
And just like a dog I was befriended
|Em | |
I was befriended
Em |
Oh, oh, what a night
D
Oh what a garden of delight
|G A |D
Even now that sweet memory lingers
|C G
I was playin' my guitar
|C G
lying underneath the stars
|C G |D
Just thankin' the lord for my fingers
|Em
for my fingers
C |G |C |G |C |G Em|D |Em | |