Bleecker Street

Album: Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
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  • Fog's rollin' in off the East River bank
    Like a shroud it covers Bleecker Street
    Fills the alleys where men sleep
    Hides the shepherd from the sheep

    Voices leaking from a sad cafe
    Smiling faces try to understand
    I saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand
    On Bleecker Street

    The poet reads his crooked rhyme
    Holy, holy is his sacrament
    Thirty dollars pays your rent
    On Bleecker Street

    I head a church bell softly chime
    In a melody sustainin'
    It's a long road to Canaan
    On Bleecker Street

    Bleecker Street Writer/s: Paul Simon
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