You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

[00:14]A man walks down the street
[00:16]He says why am I soft in the middle now
[00:18]Why am I soft in the middle
[00:20]The rest of my life is so hard
[00:22]I need a photo-opportunity
[00:23]I want a shot at redemption
[00:25]Dont want to end up a cartoon
[00:27]In a cartoon graveyard
[00:29]Bonedigger Bonedigger
[00:31]Dogs in the moonlight
[00:33]Far away my well-lit door
[00:36]Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
[00:38]Get these mutts away from me
[00:40]You know I dont find this stuff amusing anymore
[00:44]If youll be my bodyguard
[00:46]I can be your long lost pal
[00:51]I can call you Betty
[00:53]And Betty when you call me
[00:55]You can call me Al
[00:59]A man walks down the street
[01:01]He says why am I short of attention
[01:03]Got a short little span of attention
[01:04]And wo mv nights are so long
[01:06]Wheres my wife and family
[01:09]What if I die here
[01:10]Wholl be my role-model
[01:13]Now that my role-model is
[01:14]Gone Gone
[01:16]He ducked back down the alley
[01:17]With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
[01:20]All along along
[01:24]There were incidents and accidents
[01:25]There were hints and allegations
[01:29]If youll be my bodyguard
[01:31]I can be your long lost pal
[01:36]I can call you Betty
[01:38]And Betty when you call me
[01:40]You can call me Al
[01:43]Call me Al
[02:29]A man walks down the street
[02:31]Its a street in a strange world
[02:33]Maybe its the Third World
[02:35]Maybe its his first time around
[02:37]He doesnt speak the language
[02:38]He holds no currency
[02:40]He is a foreign man
[02:42]He is surrounded by the sound
[02:45]The sound
[02:46]Cattle in the marketplace
[02:48]Scatterlings and orphanages
[02:50]He looks around, around
[02:53]He sees angels in the architecture
[02:56]Spinning in infinity
[02:57]He says Amen! and Halleluiah!
[04:19][04:03][02:59]If youll be my bodyguard
[03:01]I can be your long lost pal
[04:26][04:10][03:06]I can call vou Betty
[03:08]And Betty when you call me
[03:12]You can call me Al