You Can Call Me Al Chords by Paul Simon

[Start]

[Intro]
F C Bb C F C7 Gm7 C7
■ ■ ■  ■ ■ ■  ■   ■ 
F C7 F C C7 C
■ ■  ■ ■ ■  ■


[Verse]
            G7             
A man walks down the street
                 G7                    
He says why am I soft in the middle now
C7                         
Why am I soft in the middle
G7             C7             
The rest of my life is so hard
         F                C7 G7
I need a photoopportunity ■  ■ 
         C7                
I want a shot at redemption
F                             
Don't want to end up a cartoon
Gm7          C7       
In a cartoon graveyard
           C7        
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Gm7     C7           
Dogs in the moonlight
               Gm7     C7  
Far away in my welllit door
             C7       
Mr Beerbelly Beerbelly
                C7          
Get these mutts away from me
                 C7                             
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore


[Chorus]
F               C7       
If you'll be my bodyguard
Bb            C    F    C  
I can be your long lost pal
F                C    
■ I can call you Betty
Bb                 C               F         
And Betty when you call me you can call me Al
C C7 Bb C F         C7             
A ■  ■  ■ man walks down the street


[Verse]
   G7            C7                
He says why am I short of attention
                   C7               
Got a short little span of attention
G7          C7                
And whoa my nights are so long
           C7             
Where's my wife and family
G7        C7      
What if I die here
             C7        
Who'll be my role model
G7          F                  C7  
Now that my role model is gone gone
Bb                      C7   
He ducked back down the alley
          F7       C7              G7  
With some rolypoly little batfaced girl
          C7   
All along along
           Bb            C7       
There were incidents and accidents
           F7        C7          Gm7 C7
There were hints and allegations ■   ■ 


[Chorus]
F               C7       
If you'll be my bodyguard
              C    F       
I can be your long lost pal
C Bb C F
■ ■  ■ ■
               C    
I can call you Betty
                   F                    C  C7 Gm7   
And Betty when you call me you can call me ■  ■   Al
C    F  Dm7
Call me Al 


[Inst]
G7 F Dm G7 F G7 C7 G7
■  ■ ■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ 
Dm7 C7 Gm Bb C7 Bb C7 F
■   ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■
C Bb C F C C7 C F
■ ■  ■ ■ ■ ■  ■ ■
C F C C7
■ ■ ■ ■ 


[Verse]
            C7             
A man walks down the street
G7                 C7           
It's a street in a strange world
               C7         
Maybe it's the third world
G7             C7               
Maybe it's his first time around
                  C7      
Doesn't speak the language
   G7       C7      
He holds no currency
        Dm7     C7 
He is a foreign man
Gm7   C7                               
He is surrounded by the sound the sound
              C7         
Cattle in the marketplace
            C7            
Scatterings and orphanages
                C7    
He looks around around
                  C7              
He sees angels in the architecture
            C7      
Spinning in infinity
             F7            
He says Amen and Hallelujah


[Chorus]
          C7             
If you'll be my bodyguard
Bb       C         F    C  
I can be your long lost pal
F                C    
■ I can call you Betty
    F              C       F            C  C7 Bb C 
And Betty when you call me you can call me ■  ■  Al
C      
Call me
F           G7       C 
Na na na na na na na na
            F  F7 G7   Gm7  C7
Na na na na na na nana nana ■ 
            Gm7      C7      F 
Na na na na ■   nana nana na na
            Gm7  C7        
Na na na na nana nana na na


[Bridge]
F7 C7 F7 C7 F7 A7 D7 F
■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■


[Chorus]
C Bb C F C F C F
■ ■  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
C C7 C F C
■ ■  ■ ■ ■
F               C        
If you'll be my bodyguard
Bb C Dm7 F Dm7 G7
■  ■ ■   ■ ■   ■ 
F              C    
I can call you Betty
C7 C F C Bb C
■  ■ ■ ■ ■  ■


[Outro]
F               C        
If you'll be my bodyguard
Bb C F C C7
■  ■ ■ ■ ■ 
F              C7   
I can call you Betty
G7 C F C Bb C F
■  ■ ■ ■ ■  ■ ■
                C         F C F
If you'll be my bodyguard ■ ■ ■


[End]