Paul Simon The Late Great Johnny Ace Lyrics:
I was reading a magazine,
And thinkin' of a rock & roll song.
The year was nineteen fifty-four,
And I hadn't been playin' that long.
When a man came on the radio,
And this is what he said,
He said, "I hate to break it to his fans,
But Johnny Ace is dead, yeah, yeah."

Well, I really wasn't such a Johnny Ace fan,
But I felt bad all the same.
So I sent away for his photograph,
And I waited till it came.
It came all the way from Texas,
With a sad and simple face.
And they signed it on the bottom,
"From the Late, Great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah."

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It was the year of the Beatles.
It was the year of the Stones.
It was nineteen sixty-four.
I was livin' in London,
With the girl from the summer before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was the year of the Beatles.
It was the year of the Stones.
A year after J.F.K.
We were stayin' up all night,
And givin' the days away.
And the music was flowin' amazing,
And blowin' my way.

On a cold December evening,
I was walking through the Christmas tide.
When a stranger came up and asked me,
If I'd heard John Lennon died.
And the two of us went to this bar,
And we stayed to close the place.
And every song we played was for
The Late, Great Johnny Ace.
Lyrics: The Late Great Johnny Ace, Paul Simon [end]