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The 59th Street Bridge Song

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Lyric + music by Paul Simon (1966)

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Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobble stones
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy

Hello lamppost what you knowing?
I've come to watch your flowers growing
Ain't you got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' do-do feelin' groovy

Got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you all is groovy.



Having returned from England in 1965 after a year's stay and feeling a little unsettled, Paul Simon's 6 am jaunt across the Queensboro Bridge led to one of the few truly happy songs he's ever written. Although one of Simon and Garfunkel's most popular, it never was technically a hit. Simon sued The Kroffts for using it in the theme song in their children's TV show HR Pufnstuf and won. The studio version featured Joe Borello, drums and Eugene Wright, bass, of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

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from No Strings, released August 22, 2014

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No Strings is a Mother/Son duo recording a wide variety of original songs, jazz standards, rock/pop/country/folk songs + spoken word presentations.

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