You Can Call Me Al

Paul Simon

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle

The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger

Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well lit door
Mister Beerbelly Beerbelly

Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this
stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty

And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention

And woe my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here

Who'll be my role model
Now that my role model is
Gone Gone

He ducked back down the alley
With some roly poly little bat faced girl
All along along

There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty

And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty

And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World

Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency

He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by
the sound The sound

Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around

He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty

And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

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If you'll be my bodyguard
If you'll be my bodyguard
If you'll be my bodyguard

If you'll be my bodyguard

Soft karaoke
Words