The Late Great Johnny Ace Lyrics - Paul Simon

I was reading a magazine 

And thinking of a rock and roll song 

The year was nineteen fiftyfour 

And I hadn't been playing 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, yeah 

Well, I really wasn't 

Such a johnny ace fan 

But I felt bad ali 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 sim-ple 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 sixtyfour 

I was living in london 

With the girl from the summer be-fore 

It was the year of the beatles 

It was the year of the stones 

A year after j.f.k. 

We were staying up all night 

And giving the days away 

And the music was flowing amazing 

And blowing my way 

Photos 

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 had 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, yeah, yeah, yeah