Tablature a most peculiar man - Simon And Garfunkel

          



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  Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:21:14 +0100 (BST)

  From: R P Kent 

  

  A Most Peculiar Man

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  Words and Music by Paul Simon

  As perormed by Simon and Garfunkel off Sounds of Silence...

  

  Tabbed and transcribed by Rich Kent r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk

  

  All strings down half a tone to match the recording.

  

  Verse 1

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                                                                 He was a

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    most                         peculiar man

            

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             That's what Mrs Reirdon said and she should know  she lived up

  

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    stairs from him                         she said he was a most peculiar man

   

   Verse 2

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                                                                 He was a

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    most                         peculiar man

            

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             He lived        all alone   within a house   within a room

  

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            within himself                               a most peculiar man

       

    Verse 3 is the same as verse 2...

    

    He had no friends he seldom spoke,

    And no one in turn ever spoke to him,

   'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care

    And he wasn't like them.

    Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man

    

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                                                               He died last

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                          Saturday      

            

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    He turned on the gas    with the   windows closed so he'd never wake up

    

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    To his silent world and his tiny room and Mrs Reirdon says he has a

    brother somewhere

    

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     Who should        be               notified soon                 and

     

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    all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead but wasn't he a 

    

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    most peculiar     man                                  Fade Out.....

  

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  *  Rich Kent; email r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk ;  http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d213ga *

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Tablature A most peculiar man, de Simon and garfunkel 

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