-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIMON & GARFUNKEL - A Poem On The Underground Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO 7 (to be in key with the PSRAT album version) or CAPO 6 (to be in key with e.g. the live version on "The Essential S&G") Chord diagrams: C: X-3-2-0-1-0 C/B: X-2-0-0-1-0 G: 3-2-0-0-0-3 G/B: 2-0-0-0-0-3 Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0 D: X-X-0-2-3-2 Am: X-0-2-2-1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro: C - C/B - G - G - G/F# - Em C C/B G G G/F# Em The last train is nearly due, the underground is closing soon, C C/B G G G/F# Em And in the dark deserted station, restless in anticipation, C C/B G EmF# A man waits in the shadows. C C/B G G G/F# Em His restless eyes leap and scratch, at all that they can touch or catch, C C/B G G G/F# Em And hidden deep within his pocket, safe within his silent socket, C C/B G EmF# He holds a coloured crayon. C C/B G G G/F# Em Now from the tunnel's stony womb, the carriage rides to meet the groom, C C/B G G G/F# Em And opens wide and welcome doors, but he hesitates, then withdraws C C/B G Em Deeper in the shadows. Em D And the train is gone suddenly, on wheels clicking silently C Am Em Am Like a gently tapping litany, and he holds his crayon rosary C G Em Tighter in his hand. C C/B G G G/F# Em Now from his pocket quick he flashes, the crayon on the wall he slashes, C C/B G G G/F# Em Deep upon the advertising, a single-worded poem comprised of C C/B G EmF# Four letters. C C/B G And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding, G G/f# Em The poem across the tracks rebounding, C C/B G G G/F# Em Shadowed by the exit light, his legs take their ascending flight C C/B G G/f# C G To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.