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You Can Call Me Al

from Alicia Witt EP by Alicia Witt

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my re-harmonized version of Paul Simon's classic- you've never quite heard it like this before!

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a man walks down the street
he says why am i soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle 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 from my well-lit door
mr. beerbelly beerbelly get these mutts away from me
you know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

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

man walks down the street
he says why am I short of attention
got a short little span of attention
and oh 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, long there were incidents and accidents
there were hints and allegations

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
you can call me -

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 in infinity, he says hey- 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
you can call me-

credits

from Alicia Witt EP, released June 1, 2009
written by paul simon
piano/vocals: alicia witt
bass: milo decruz
drums: ryland steen
guitar: matt beckley

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Alicia Witt Nashville, Tennessee

Alicia Witt has played all over the world, including at the Grand Ole Opry. Her new album, The Conduit, which she co- produced with Jordan Lehning & Bill Reynolds, is out in 2021. Previous releases include 15000 Days (Jacquire King), & Ben Folds produced Revisionary History, “a piano-pop gem...“Grey Seal”-era Elton John, an alt-universe Fiona Apple and a film-noir chanteuse” - Nashville Scene ... more

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