Simon & Garfunkel - America (from The Concert in Central Park)
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- "America" by Simon & Garfunkel from The Concert in Central Park
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Lyrics:
"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together"
"I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America
"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
#SimonAndGarfunkel #America #TheConcertInCentralPark
How their voices rise and fade together it’s perfection
"Kathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why." A concise
expression of melancholia.
That is my favorite lyric of all time.
Its a great lyric and it has come in my head at times in my life where i have really felt it in my soul.
I don't understand this lyric. Can someone please elaborate why it's a lot of people's favorite? I feel dumb 😶
@@staticpiece it's one of my favorite lyrics too but I can't explain it. It's like explaining why you like any song. You could say all kinds of good things about a song but ultimately the reason why you think a bunch of good things are true about a song is because you like it.
Gives me goosebumps. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
東北の寒村の貧乏学生だった 私はラジオから聞こえる S&Gの素晴らしいコーラスに 遠いアメリカを憧れながら耳を傾けていました。
大学を卒業して証券会社へ入社した私に アメリカへの 転勤の話かありました。 喜んだ私は 勇んで アメリカへ 飛びましたが
残念ながら S&Gは解散していました。 しかし 突然 彼らの セントラルパークでの コンサートが決まったのです。 やっとのことでチケットを手に入れた私は そこで
初めて ポール・サイモンとアート・ガーファンクルが歌う姿をみたのでした。コンサートが終わるまで、感激で涙が止まらず 私は自分の幸運を神に感謝しました。
たった一度のLIVEでしたが 私には一生の思い出になりました。
Gostaria de ter a mesma sorte que você...como eu queria ter estado naquele show..perfeito..sem violência, lindas musicas..tudo perfeito
I'm with you ❤❤❤❤❤
Blessed ❤
Você é abençoado, assistir um show desse que nunca mais se repetiu,e também eles não fizeram turnê pelo mundo, sonhava com eles aqui no Brasil, agora só saudades, parabéns por ter realizado sei sonho ❤
What a beautiful story, my friend ❤
It’s 2024 , I’m 71 and I am blessed to have lived in the eras of the best music ever 💕
Amen!
Je vais avoir 70 ans juillet 2024 et j écoute toujours ces groupes merveilleux qui nous enchantent ❤❤❤❤
I am from the following generation and I couldn't agree more :)
Absolutely 💯 ❤
j'ai eu la chance de voir Art Garfunkel a un de ces concert
"And the moon rose over an open field..."
Wow! Goosebumps.
Should be a Van Gogh painting.
“And the moon rose over an open field” brilliant
I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!
Paul Simon creates most poetic songs in the history of music... Genius
I still can't believe that this concert was 39 years ago- in 1981.
Somethings are timeless.
You don't need a music video to see this song play out before you.
I wish I had the financial means to make a video for this song in animated form, I love it deeply.
Art Garfunkle sprinkle that magic dust on Simon's peerless poetry.
Paul Simon is a musical genius
The masters of a duo. Who else is listening to this wonderful song July 03, 2021 GOD Bless our GREAT AMERICA!
Sound of Silence is the greatest song ever written, this is a close second
The simplicity and depth of this music is something we rarely find in modern songs. A true classic
I am British, yet this poetry has always reduced me to tears. Keep fighting the good fight my American friends. Art Garfunkel has such an excellent voice.
Dream on.
@@pteeng1 Pardon?
@@obesetuna3164 I meant the end part of the song's studio version. That version has an end part (called coda in musical terms) played on the organ. This live version doesn't have it even though it's the best part of the entire song.
@@pteeng1 I see what you mean. I had the recorded version years back. Many thanks.
Paul & Art ......... their voices are so Pure
The line "Kathy i'm lost, i said though i knew she was sleeping" always makes me cry and to this day i still don't know quite why.
Perhaps becuz we have all felt that way and our hearts identify so well💓
Because she wasn’t listening x
I think these lines are the best ones ever written in an American song
@@joanneford356yes, she wasn't listening and he knew it, that's why he said these words
Poetry in music and truth. Love
1:57 That D/F#(I think) chord gets me every time. That one chord immediately transforms the song from a hopeful, carefree tune to a melancholic, bittersweet one and sets up my favorite verse ever written by Paul Simon.
Holy shit, good catch. That is absolutely where the song 'turns'.
These moves me to the bones. Im 37, from southern Chile and i grew up listening S&G with my parents. Love to play this concert fully on my acoustic on a chill Friday night.
"So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field" To me this seems like one of the best lines ever used in a song.
Or sunrise in South Georgia USA
... I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises ... all lies and jests ... still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ...
... and he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut, till he cried out, in his anger and his shame ...
... there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there ...
I agree. You feel it. You experience it. You are riding along with them.
@@eddarby469 outstanding indeed
Absolutely agree.
Brother Ricky and I made it to the concert in Central Park. A great memory of quality time spent with my late, great baby brother. Thank you Paul and Art.
The planets aligned that night......been listening to this concert for 37 years now, I will never stop until my dying day.
Kathy ," I am lost" is the most simply stated that my 67 years that humbled me . Thanks Paul .
There music is pure poetry from Paul and an angelic voice from Art.What a pair❤❤
I praise the Lord that I was alive in the era of these 2 INCREDIBLE people. Im a Brit - I married a gal from Iowa and we went to look for America, we sadly lost her in a car wreck but this song keeps her alive in my heart.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sorry to hear that my friend
Here i go again, Jan 2021 still watching the greatest duo in music history.
You're not alone.
Nope
Here i go again, July 2021 still watching one of the greatest duo in music history.
@@patg2445 - me too
It's almost September,2021 and I'm still listening and loving it all.
So glad i was born before the glorious era of this duo who’s music continue to flourish during the years. Now in my mid60s, i’ll forever cherish them.
Agree 100%
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Me too
They are so in sync it's almost like they never stopped singing together. Beautiful and amazing.
According to the 1982 album booklet, this concert brought 500,000 people to Central Park in a single performance and has not been forgotten until today.
Cos it was free.
I’m from England and once travelled in a Jeep with work solo from Seattle, through Oregon down to the Californian coast to San Francisco. I was loving the coastal views along the way with sun kissed wild prehistoric looking beaches. Then this song came on the radio and it just made the trip so moving. When Guy Clarke came on the radio singing the Randall Knife I thought I was in some movie dream but it was reality. Such pure American road trip sounds. Magical. Timeless. A few years ago now, the world was a different optimistic place back then. Full of wonder.
My regards to the guys at the Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, if it still exists, fun bar and they thought I’d walked out of a spaceship when I started talking with my English accent. You can’t get any more American than that hang out.
I was at this concert. It was in September, on my wedding anniversary. Art asked us if we were cold. Who cared, all our attention was on the music!
You can hear him ask if you were cold on one of the other songs from this concert; they're all on TH-cam. I think it's The Boxer.
Just played this over and over and an unexpected hospital stay for covid. Otherworldly, hugely moving.. I was born in '61. My brother, 5 years ahead and leagues ahead in music, played everything downstairs... 'All Along the Watchtower.." Later the impossibly good rocking, famous as ever.. Skynyrd's 'Free Bird'... now I digress.
Something in "America landed as deep as a diving bell. We must keep searching.... and drown out the players and the losers and the fake political games..
Wherever you on, literally or figuratively, hop on that bus. We'll never know unless we try....!!
Oh j aurais tellement aimé assister à l un de leurs concerts ceka devait être magique
"How you doin', are you cold? God, you look great from here."
Vous avez beaucoup de chance....
J'aurais aimé être présent ce soir là.
Garfunkel has the voice of an angel. Together they have a harmony that is other-worldly.
Nick cave
I agree and this song in one of the best.
@@alanrylands7004 This shear ''brilliance'' of this duo is something that will never be repeated. The very best there ever was, without any doubt.
@@howardjones8686 " "brilliance" "?
I kinda like the Garfunkel & Garfunkel album, "Break away" had some nice tunes on her. Plus, he did a fine job in the movie, "Catch 22" or was it Catch 22.746? Not sure.
Man... Simon and Garfunkel came out with some exceptional songs. This song is in my top 5 favorite S & G songs. They were truly the voice of their generation and the generations from there onward
They certainly were! I listen to their music all the time.
up there with Dylan's genius American musical poetry !
2 voices that are made for each other.
Love you so much Paul and Art 🎭
I never new that two voices and a guitar could be so good!!!
One of THE BEST Simon & Garfunkel songs of all time.
Oh Yes!
I agree. The first time i heard this song i was in my early teens on an album from the group Yes
But it is far better with the origin3
i got to say Air supply is the best for me, paul and simon is up there for sure!
One of the best songs of all time
"I'm empty, and aching and I don't know why...."
encapsulates the 60s "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why". Cinematic. You can imagine yourself on the bus in America's glory days of the 60s. Lots of 60s peeps in the crowd with their kids. Magical moment in time
Paul Simon the Shakespeare of songwriting. Deserves the Nobel Prize for literature and songwriting.
Yes, he deserves that.
The greatest duo of all time!
Surely one of THE greatest concerts.
I love the '"Kathy", I said as we boarded a greyhound in Pittsburgh' as Art comes in so poignantly with the his high harmony. I have a lot of favorite lines in this song and this is definitely one of them. The start of that verse is so strong and powerful.
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there´s one in my raincoat" 😍
i've yet to find a live performance by any group that sounds as good as this historic set.
The seekers at the Sydney mayer music bowl is really good too
Paul Simon is Perfect 🙏❤️🙏
Thank you...thank you...thank you!!!!
The older I get the more I appreciate their music thank God my father still has his vinyl collection
Their voices just blend together so well. I never get tired of listening to Simon and Garfunkel.
+Judy Kramer Garfunkel does an amazing job at harmonizing so sweetly
Me too and for some reason I can be doing the most ordinary thing like walking my dogs and this particular song will be (pleasantly) stuck in my head
classic mixes
It's just "sublime"!!! Their voices go very well together effectivly. Il am never tired listening them since 40 years!!!!!!!!
Bad english, no?
This concert is so significant in American music history. Nobody writes or harmonizes like Simon and Garfunkel
Everly Brothers, Bee Gees, CSN& Y were all amazing at harmony
Happy to remember this concert and the amazing night of magic!
I'm British and this song makes me feel American..... beautiful song.
I was blessed to have been at this concert in Central Park! My older cousin who lived in Manhattan took me. I went on a train from Fairfield Connecticut to meet her. Such a wonderful memory. We lost her recently to covid 19.
So sorry to hear that.😧
They had a way of articulating intangible moods and emotions. With this song in particular the melody fits the lyrics so perfectly that the emotions and visual images are felt and seen vividly, like watching a movie that you are a part of. You smell the cigarette smoke, you feel Kathy sleeping on your shoulder while you look out at the window at the passing scenery. Paul Simon even uses literary devices to enrich the lyrics, like his use of assonance in "The moon rose over the open hill." The combination of Paul's evocative lyrics, Art's angelic voice, and their beautiful harmony are what made them the dream team they were back in the '60s.
"Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, Michigan seems like a dream to me now". Insanely great harmonizing by Garfunkel here. Even superior to the Beatles or the Beach Boys at their peak.
They will never be surpassed.Im so glad I still love and appreciate them at 81 years.Always will.
One of the greatest and underrated S&G songs! And the live guitar solo is epic!
They never should have broken up... They are so beautiful together and thier music..... Wow!!!!! Such harmony...
Beautiful song and this live version in Central Park is especially beautiful.
I will never tire of listening to it.
I saw the entire concert on television when it was first broadcast in 1983 in Spain, and since then I have collected all the media on which it has been recorded.
Beautiful lyrics, too.
Paul Simon = Genius. Art Garfunkel = Voice for a Genius. Simon and Garfunkel = Best Double Act of All Time.
David Mitchell I think the right and true way to say it is this ..." Art Garfunkel is a genius in harmonization and has a voice who can only give life and so much soul to the song written by Paul Simon!" The singer and his brilliant voice is the only reason why a song is being greatly appreciated and loved by the hearing audience. No matter how great a song was being written if it's not sang by a singer who can truly give justice to the song (angelic, soulful voice that's so brilliant combined with great harmonization- on duet) it's nothing and it's not being well recognized or appreciated- it would never become a hit! It will just be a well written lyrics.
Jr Dier . Perhaps a certain Mr Bob Dylan would disagree that it needs a great singer with a brilliant voice to make a song a hit. He has written some of the most memorable, great songs ever and even with his less than beautiful voice have made these songs into never to be forgotten standards for our lifetime.
Best lyrics ever written
Paul Simon is a poet for our times, I'm 63 so I first heard them as a kid, have loved them ever since, and they both have the voices of angels
"And the moon rose over an open field". This line always gets me - guess it's just so evocative.
It's always affected me deeply. Such an evocation of emptiness. Gives me chills no matter how many times I hear it.
It really evoques the feeling of understanding your true promise of love and hope was really a promise of illusions which cannot be.
It Is incredibile how universal that line Is
Perhaps my favorite line in all of pop music
I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!
this might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life. honestly.
Daniel Cropp h
Late to the party as usual, but still had to post. Every now and then you encounter a song that is so beautiful, your breath gets caught in your throat and tears spring to your eyes. This song...THIS SONG ..does that to me. ..Simply Magnificent! I have no other words.
Can't emphasize enough how important this recording, Central Park, is. It is precious. Love it, Australia.
I just can’t stop playing this.
And singing with your arms crossed... how unconciously talented 😀
Art Garfunkel’s voice trips me out.
Phenomenal 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎶💖
Songwriting simply doesn't get any better than this
If there's a better harmoniser on the planet than Art Garfunkel, I have yet to hear of them. He elevates all of the Simon and Garfunkel catalogue to a completely different level..
I was at this concert. It was the best concert I have ever been to and it was free.
😮😮😮
I will never stop loving New York. Never.
Sally Eckhoff Same.
How fortunate you are to have lived this event... This live concert i can remember my dad had playing on a cassette player in his 505 Peugeot when I was 6, on a rainy day driving in Cape Town, South Africa. I never understood this music back then, it felt so lonely. Now I can't help becoming nostalgic when listening to it.
@@technnschools Wow, even in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a great time. Everyone brought blankets, some brought wine or other booze as well as having weed wafting through the air. It was such a mellow and enjoyable concert. Everyone was polite and no fights at all. I am one of six siblings and I'm the second to youngest so when I was probably 6 or 7 I was listening to my eldest sisters play their records on the stereo. I think that was even before cassettes. I also become nostalgic when listening to it.
Here it is June 2017, and I am watching a very touching Volkswagen commercial with Simon and Garfunkel singing in the background.......this very beautiful song.....America. A song just about fifty years old and still relevant in 2017. What a treasure...and what a treat it is... to hear this amazing song in this commercial. Well done Volkswagen!
I was there and this concert will never be forgotten!
September 1981 Central Park, NYC
This song is perfect. Vocals. Lyrics. Guitar riffs. Perfect!
the night that began my "life"....the night i was "born",..in many ways. xoxoxo. love you so much paul...you are a prophet and a poet and an angel. xoxoxo
This performance perfectly captures the musical dynamic of Simon and Garfunkel as greater than just Paul Simon's songbook. Art's parts and presence turn a beautiful composition into an epic hymn with its place deep into America's songbook, with a grandiose but simple brilliance that set them apart from all other folk duos in history.
You couldn't have said it better, that's their magic
One of my favorite songs in high school! Had each album the minute they were released. Wish there were so many more. What a gem this song is. 50 years of loving these two...their voices blending together. Never get tired of hearing them sing. Wish it could go on forever.
I feel the same way Carole.. can’t believe so many years have passed since I first heard this masterpiece..
It can instantly take me back to a different place and time
Genius pure and simple. A great song about a remarkable country. Sends shivers down my spine.
I think Paul Simon looked his very best at this particular time of his life! He looked great, and they were both in fabulous voice this night! 😀
With you all the way on that one, Gorgeous😍♥️
My teenage years all flooding back. Loved Paul’s songs and Art’s beautiful voice.
To me, this song always looked like a tale of two people going out and making sense of their lives, while living and enjoying it, together.
WHAT A FANTSTIC PERFORMANCE BY A GREAT DUO OF A CLASSIC TUNE. LISTEN!!!!
This concert was performed when cable tv was a brand new thing in my area. I remember HBO played this concert over and over and I would watch it every chance I got as an 11 year old boy. As of 6 minutes ago, I just hit my 50th birthday and I am enjoying this concert yet again while the rest of my house sleeps. So beautiful! What a blessing! Long Live Simon and Garfunkel!
They were so good together! Sure wish I could sing like Art Garfunkel he was the best!
I'm fifty too, and i'm still listening from Italy
@@tommylevanto1226 Yep.....51 now for me. But I remember this night well. I had somewhat recently lost my mom and all the childhood memories were bitter-sweet at that moment. But mostly sweet!
make sure he hears this as he grows up
Happy birthday! Don’t worry, sixty is even better.
Simply majestic! The harmony is sublime...
Paul Simon is one of the greatest song writers of all time. I love this number.
I hitch-hiked across America in 1975. I learned to love Ohio, Flyover country, the western desert, and Pacific Coast Highway. Ended up in Haight-Ashbury. And turned myself in at a navy recruiter's office. I got a 30 days restriction, half a month's pay docked, and a transfer to a really good ship. Totally worth it!
Simon could write some great lyrics
I love how this song paints a mental picture with words and music. Absolutely brilliant.
S&G words and music truly understood the pulse of a generation and nation. This particular song will apply and stand the test of time, as most from my generation are, still looking for, America.
Guitar solo is perfect for the song, timing is impeccable
You won't regret it. I did in 1980 with my best friend. From Boston to Sacramento when I first saw California my heart skipped a beat or two.. time of my life!
The backing musicians at this concert are sensational!
Spotted Pete Carr seated just behind Paul. Carr is a great studio musician from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and one half of the group Lablanc and Carr.
Jackson and Gadd are definitely not backing.. 😉
@@Karmakatt6 don't forget Pat Metheny. If you didn't see him almost impossible to tell by his playing. His versatility never ceases to amaze
@@dakine575756 Pat Metheny was playing here?
@@kalmia01. He was not,I my self always thought the same Even by playing but it was David Brown,he Played with Billy Joel 😊
I keep coming back to this one. Feels so nostalgic.
Me Too, THIS and now at age 67, BookEnds does ot for me also ♥️
My God seriously together they were magic! Being there was the icing on the cake 😉🤙😎
I'm an old Japanese man. Even now, every time I listen to this song it makes me think back of my life. It's short but a beautiful song with an incredibly beautiful poem! Thank you S&G. You are my eternal heroes.
Love you Simon&Garfunkel
Love this song
What a masterpiece!!! Everything is exquisite in every detail:tune, lyrics, everything! Incredible performance too!
They sound so wonderful together. Thank you for sharing.
We've all gone to look for America! That's really deep right now and hit way different way this moment . *tears. Pray for America
One of the best pieces of American Literature in our country! Plus they mention my hometown of Saginaw Michigan! Well done boys!
Such a beautiful song,reminds me of growing up when you where young,going to places,with a bunch of friends,and enjoying your young freedom,they were the best days .❤😊