Scarborough
Fair/Canticle (3:11) Read the song on which this is based!
P. Simon/A. Garfunkel, 1966
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill
in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on
snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes
the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the
clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill,
a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washes the ground with
so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea
strand
(A soldier cleans and
polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it in a sickle of
leather
(War bellows, blazing
in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their
soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of
heather
(And to fight for a
cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Patterns
(2:45)
P. Simon, 1965
The night sets softly
With the hush of falling leaves
Casting shivering shadows
On the houses through the trees
And the light from a street lamp
Paints a pattern on my wall
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Or a child's uneven scrawl
Up a narrow flight of stairs
In a narrow little room
As I lie upon my bed
In the early evening gloom
Impaled on my wall
My eyes can dimly see
The pattern of my life
And the puzzle that is me
From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath
Like a rat in a maze
The path before me lies
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies
And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell
And it's fitting that it should
For in darkness I must dwell
Like the color of my skin
Or the day that I grow old
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled
Cloudy
(2:15)
P. Simon, 1966
Cloudy
The sky is gray and white and cloudy
Sometimes I think it's hanging down
on me
And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles
I'm a raga-muffin child
Pointed finger-painted smile
I left my shadow waiting down the
road for me a while
Cloudy
My thoughts are scattered and they're
cloudy
They have no boreders, no boundaries
They echo and they swell
From Tolstoi to Tinkerbell
Down from Berkeley to Carmel
Got some pictures in my pocket and
a lot of time to kill
Hey sunshine
I haven't seen you in a long time
Why don't you show your face and
bend my mind?
These clouds stick to the sky
Like a floating question why
And they linger there to die
They don't know where they are going,
and, my friend, neither do I
Cloudy
Cloudy
Homeward
Bound (2:30)
P. Simon, 1966
I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination,
mmm
On a tour of one night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one-man band
Homeward Bound
I wish I was
Homeward Bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Every day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
Reminds me that I long to be
Homeward Bound
I wish I was
Homeward Bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Tonight I'll sing my songs again
I'll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me
Homeward Bound
I wish I was
Homeward Bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Silently for me
The
Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine (2:44)
P. Simon, 1966
Do people have a tendency to dump
on you?
Does your group have more cavities
than theirs?
Do all the hippies seem to get the
jump on you?
Do you sleep alone when others sleep
in pairs?
Well there's no need to complain
We'll eliminate your pain
We can neutralize your brain
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
Do figures of authority just shoot
you down?
Is life within the business world
a drag?
Did your boss just mention that you'd
better shop around
To find yourself a more productive
bag?
Are you worried and distressed?
Can't seem to get no rest?
Put our product to the test
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
You'd better hurry up and order one
Our limited supply is very nearly
gone
Do you nervously await the blows of
cruel fate?
Do your checks bounce higher than
a rubber ball?
Are you worried 'cause your girlfriend's
just a little late?
Are you looking for a way to chuck
it all?
We can end your daily strife
At a reasonable price
You've seen it advertised in Life
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
The
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (1:42)
P. Simon, 1966
Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy
Hello lamppost, what'cha knowing
I've come to watch your flowers growin'
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doo-it in doo doo, feeling groovy
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy
I got no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready
to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its
petals on me
Life I love you, all is groovy
The
Dangling Conversation (2:40)
P. Simon, 1966
It's a still life water color
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain
lace
And shadows wash the room
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
The borders of our lives
And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time
And the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
Are the borders of our lives
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow
I cannot feel your hand
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
In the borders of our lives
Flowers
Never Bend With The Rainfall (2:14)
P. Simon, 1965
Through the corridors of sleep
Past shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion
I don't know what is real
I can't touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my
illusion
So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall
The mirror on my wall
Casts an image dark and small
But I'm not sure at all it's my relfection
I am blinded by the light
Of God and truth and right
And I wander in the night without
direction
So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall
No matter if you're born
To play the King or pawn
For the line is thinly drawn 'tween
joy and sorrow
So my fantasy
Becomes reality
And I must be what I must be and
face tomorrow
So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall
A
Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
(2:12)
P. Simon, 1965
I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled
till I'm blind
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never
mind
I been Phil Spectored, resurrected
I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered
Well, I paid all the dues I want
to pay
And I learned the truth from Lenny
Bruce
And all of my wealth won't buy me
health
So I smoke a pint of tea a day
I knew a man, his brain so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
He's not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip
that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're
talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma
Everybody must get stoned
I been Mick Jaggered, silver daggered
Andy Warhol, won't you please come
home?
I been mothered, fathered, aunt and
uncled
Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled
I just discovered somebody's tapped
my phone
For
Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (2:04)
P. Simon, 1966
What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline
Of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain
I wandered empty streets
Down past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alleyways
As I walked on
And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand
And when I awoke
And felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair
With my grateful tears
Oh I love you girl
Oh I love you
A
Poem On The Underground Wall (1:57)
P. Simon, 1966
The last train is nearly due
The underground is closing soon
And in the dark deserted station
Restless in anticipation
A man waits in the shadows
His restless eyes leap and scratch
At all that they can touch or catch
And hidden deep within his pocket
Safe within its silent socket
He holds a colored crayon
Now from the tunnel's stony womb
The carriage rides to meet the groom
And open wide and welcome doors
But he hesitates, and then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows
And the train is gone suddenly
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand
Now from his pocket quick he flashes
The crayon on the wall he slashes
Deep upon the advertising
A single worded poem consisting
Of four letters
And his heart is laughing, screaming,
pounding
The poem across the tracks rebounding
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and
be suckled by the night
7
O'Clock News/Silent Night (1:59)
P. Simon, 1966
This is the early evening edition
of the news.
The recent fight in the House of
Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill.
Brought traditional enemies together
but left the defenders of the measure without the votes of their strongest
supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed
an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of housing
but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked
out in the House Judiciary Committee.
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny
Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdose of narcotics.
Bruce was 42 years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does
not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march Sunday in the Chicago
suburb of Cicero.
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby
asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said they would
ask the National Guard to be called out if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans
to return to Chicago Tuesday.
In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused
murderer of nine student nurses, was brought before a grand jury today
for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed and
strangled in their Chicago apartment.
In Washington the atmosphere was
tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities continued its probe into anti-Viet Nam war protests.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted
from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon
says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort
in Viet Nam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition
to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against
the U.S.
That's the 7 o'clock edition of the
news, good night.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Patterns
(Demo) (2:53)
P. Simon, 1965
The night sets softly
With the hush of falling leaves
Casting shivering shadows
On the houses through the trees
And the light from a street lamp
Paints a pattern on my wall
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Or a child's uneven scrawl
Up a narrow flight of stairs
In a narrow little room
As I lie upon my bed
In the early evening gloom
Impaled on my wall
My eyes can dimly see
The pattern of my life
And the puzzle that is me
From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath
Like a rat in a maze
The path before me lies
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies
And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell
And it's fitting that it should
For in darkness I must dwell
Like the color of my skin
Or the day that I grow old
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled
A
Poem On The Underground Wall (Demo) (1:51)
P. Simon, 1966
Paul: Listen carefully to this thing,
because-
Voice (Roy Halee? Bob Johnston?):
Okay, Paul!
Paul: -where I wanna go with on,
on the arrangements.
Voice: You're going.
The last train is nearly due
The underground is closing soon
And in the dark deserted station
Restless in anticipation
A man waits in the shadows
His restless eyes leap and scratch
At all that they can touch or catch
And hidden deep within his pocket
Safe within its silent socket
He holds a colored crayon
Now from the tunnel's stony womb
The carriage rides to meet the groom
And open wide and welcome doors
But he hesitates, and then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows
And the train is gone suddenly
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand
Now from his pocket quick he flashes
The crayon on the wall he slashes
Deep upon the advertising
A single worded poem consisting
Of four letters
And his heart is laughing, screaming,
pounding
The poem across the tracks rebounding
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and
be suckled by the night