You Can Call Me Al Lyrics - Graceland - 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? 

When 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 

Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly 

Get these mutts away from me! 

You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore 

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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 whoa, 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 

Photos 

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 

*long flute solo* 

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, sound 

Cattle in the marketplace 

Scatterlings and orphanages 

He looks around, around 

He sees angels in the architecture 

Spinning into 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) 

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na ... 

If you'll be my bodyguard... 

I can call you Betty... 

If you'll be my bodyguard... 

I can call you betty... 

If you'll be my bodyguard...