The Late Great Johnny Ace Paul Simon

[Verse 1]
I was reading a magazine and thinking of a rock and roll song
The year was 1954 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"

[Refrain]
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
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 'til 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"

[Refrain]
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Bridge]
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones
It was 1964
I was living in London with the girl from the summer before
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones
A year after JFK
We were staying up all night and giving the days away
And the music was flowing
Amazing and blowing my way