Words & music by Paul Simon 1979
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Some people say Jesus that's the ace in the hole
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But I never met the man so I don't really know
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Maybe some Christmas if I'm sick and alone
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He will look up my number
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Call me on the phone and say,
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Hey----,boy, where you been so long?
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Don't you know me?
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I'm your ace in the hole
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Two hundred dollars, that's my ace in the hole
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When I'm down, dirty and desperate that's my emergency bank roll
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I got two hundred dollars, that's the price on the street
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If you wanna get some quality
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That's the price you got to meet. And the man says,
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Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
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Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A7 |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7|
I'm your ace in the hole
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Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole
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Was that I knew that I was crazy So I never lost my self-control
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I just walk in the middle of the road I sleep in the middle of the bed
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I stop in the middle of a sentence
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And the voice in the middle of my head said
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Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
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Don't you know me?
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I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
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Ace in the hole
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Lean on me
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Don't you know me?
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I'm your guarantee
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Riding on this rolling bus
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Beneath a stony sky
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With a slow moon rising
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And the smokestacks drifting by
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In the hour when the heart is weakest
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And memory is strong
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When time has stopped
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and the bus just rolls along
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Roll on, roll on
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Roll on, roll on
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Roll on, roll on
A A/G#|F#m |Bm |E |A7 |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7|
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Some people say music that's their ace in the hole
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Just your ordinary rhythm and blues Your basic rock and roll
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You can sit on the top of the beat; you can lean on the side of the beat
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You can hang from the bottom of the beat
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But you got to admit that the music is sweet
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Where you been so long?
G#m7-5 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A/E | |D#m7-5 | |
I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
Dmaj7 |
Ace in the hole
C#m5-5 |A#dim |
Lean on me
Bm7 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A7 |Bm A| |Bm A7| | | |
I'm your guarantee
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