You Can Call Me Al bass tab by Paul Simon
Bass Tab
Tuning: Standard (E A D G)
Key: F
Difficulty: Advanced
You can call me Al
Paul simon
Album: Negociations and Love Songs - 1988
Tempo: 126 bpm
Singularity: Fretted bass + fretless bass
Intro:
keyboard cue Bass: 00:03
F C Gm F C F C Gm C
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E|-----------------|-----------------|-1-1-1-----------|-3-3-3-----------|
F C Gm F C F C Gm C
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E|-1-1-1-----------|-3-3-3-----------|-1--1------------|-3-3-3-----------|
Verse 1:: 00:14
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F C Gm C
A man walks down the street, he says why am I soft in the middle now,
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F C Gm C
why am I soft in the middle, the rest of my life is so hard,
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F C Gm C
I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption,
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F C Gm C
dont want to end up a cartoon, in a cartoon graveyard,
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F C Gm C
Bonedigger, bonedigger, dogs in the moonlight,
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F C Gm C
far away my well-lit door,
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F C Gm C
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly, get these mutts away from me,
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F C Gm C
I don't find this stuff... amusing anymore.
Chorus 1:: 00:44
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F C Gm C
If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal,
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F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me
To coda*
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F C Gm C
you can call me Al.
Verse 2:: 00:59
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F C
A man walks down the street,
Gm C
he says why am I short of attention, got a...
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F C Gm C
short little span of attention, and oh, my nights are so long,
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F C Gm C
Where’s my wife and family, what if I die here?
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F C Gm C
Who’ll be my role-model, now that my role-model is
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F C Gm C
gone, gone, He ducked back down the alley… with
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F C Gm C F
some roly-poly little bat-faced girl,
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F C Gm C
all along, along there were... incidents and accidents,
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F C Gm C
there were hints and al--legations
Chorus 2:: 01:29
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F C Gm C
If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal,
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E|-1--1--1---------------------------|-3--3--3---------------------------|
F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me
To coda*
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F C Gm C
you can call me Al.
Solo:: 01:44 Penny Whistle Solo (slap all notes w/thumb till interlude)
F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
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...
F C Gm C F C Gm C
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E|-1-1-1------------|-3-3-3------------|-1-1-1------------|-3-3-3-----------|
F C Gm C F C Gm C
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A|-------0--3-----3-|-------1--3-----3-|-------0--3-----3-|-------1-3---3---| *** Fretted bass ***
E|-1--1-------------|-3-3-3------------|-1-1-1------------|-3-3-3-----------|
(now 2nd bass "fretless" playing along...) playing togeher
F C Gm C
G||--7/10--7/10-----|-------7---5-5----|--7/10--7/10------|----------------||
D||-----------------|-5---8---8--------|--------------10--|-8---5-7-5------||
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F C Gm C F C Gm C
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A|-------0--3-----3-|-------1--3-----3-|-------0--3-----3-|-------1--3----3.| ^^^ Fretted bass ^^^
E|-1--1-------------|-3-3-3------------|-1--1-------------|-3-3-3-----------|
F C Gm C playing togeher
G||--7/10--7/10-----|-------7---5-5----|--7/10--7/10------|----------------||
D||-----------------|-5---8---8--------|--------------10--|-8---5-7-5------||
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Interlude: Brass playing: : 02:14
F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
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Verse 3:: 02:29
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F C Gm C
A man walks down the street, It’s a street in a strange world,
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F C Gm C
maybe its the Third World, maybe it’s his first time around,
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F C Gm C
Doesn’t speak the language, He holds no currency,
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F C Gm C
he is a foreign man, he is surrounded by the...
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F C Gm C
sound, the sound, cattle in the marketplace,
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F C Gm C
scatterings and orphanages, He...
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F C Gm C
looks around, around, He sees... angels in the architecture,
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F C Gm C
spinning in infinity, He says... Amen and Hallelujah!
Chorus 3:: 02:59
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F C Gm C
If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal,
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E|-1--1--1---------------------------|-3--3--3---------------------------|
F C Gm C
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F C Gm C
I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me
To coda*
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F C Gm C
you can call me Al.
Break:: 03:14
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F C Gm C
Na na na na Na na na na
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F C Gm C
Na na na na Na na na na
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F C Gm C
Na na na na Na na na na
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F C Gm C
Na na na na Na na na na
then ... 03:29 (play x4)
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F C Gm C
Hum hum
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