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
"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.
"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
There music is pure poetry from Paul and an angelic voice from Art.What a pair❤❤
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 UA-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.
Paul Simon the Shakespeare of songwriting. Deserves the Nobel Prize for literature and songwriting.
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.
"And the moon rose over an open field..."
Wow! Goosebumps.
Should be a Van Gogh painting.
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.
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.
2 voices that are made for each other.
How their voices rise and fade together it’s perfection
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.
@@technologyinschoolswestern7142 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.
*"I'm empty, and aching, and I don't know why..."*
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
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 meaningful today. Aren’t we all “looking for America?”
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...."
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.
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.
“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
"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!!!
Sound of Silence is the greatest song ever written, this is a close second
The planets aligned that night......been listening to this concert for 37 years now, I will never stop until my dying day.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
As an Australian. One of my life goals is to go on a greyhound across America listening to this masterpiece. One day...
take me with you
I rode a Greyhound in 1997 from Washington, DC to Missoula, MT...and, as trite as it may seem...the journey was the most meaningful part of it all. I met interesting people all along the way. A young school teacher from Minnesota whose car had broken down. She was riding the Greyhound back home. A rancher from Ekalaka, MT who told me...look on the bus here...these are the real Americans...not the politicians in Washington. America is not Left or Right, Black or White. America is each one of us finding the best in ourselves and doing what we can, while we are alive, to make this place a better place. America is not The News, telling us what we feel...but ourselves, using our innate intelligence, to determine what WE feel. And acting according to the dictates of our individual consciences.
when you get to North Carolina, look me up and I'll buy you a beer
Had to take a Greydog from Chicago to Toledo once. Truly a horrible experience. If Hell exists it could be like the inside of that bus.
These days you will get robbed and assaulted. Try renting a car. Bus travel was once ok, now its how the very poor travel, and its not good.
Every once in a while I"m glad I'm old.
I hear you, man.
Hilarious!!! And very true, all of us who are over 55 and beyond revel in the music of our generation just like our grandparents did, and we feel sorry for the younger generations and what they missed. We avoid the horrible so called "music" we hear against our will way too often. Eeeeesshhh...but we're grateful & happy for the "real" music we love. We're turning into our grandparents, and that's a good thing!!!
yes, darling we have our moments
.....exactly!
As a 16 year old person this band has really opened my eyes to real good music. People talk about the high point of music and i would argue without a doubt that this would have been the time to alive. My dad tells me stories of this concert because he was their and it is something of a dream for someone like me who is relatively new to this kind of music. (about three years)
I was at that concert with a whole bunch of my friends. We took the bus up from the Village. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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
Garfunkel in the Han Solo outfit...
Respect!
So here are two husbands of princess Leia
rumor has it he made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs
I love all genres of music but this is a serious masterpiece.
This is an America I want to live in. Please turn the clock back 55 years!!
Kathy ," I am lost" is the most simply stated that my 67 years that humbled me . Thanks Paul .
The older I get the more I appreciate their music thank God my father still has his vinyl collection
What a live performance! One of the best I've ever heard
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.
If Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize
for literature, Paul Simon should get one for poetry.
and melody!!!!!
yesss….
Agree! Him & James Taylor wrote lovely songs & are sweet men. They would better represent us.
Howard Steier agreed. funny thing is this song is completely prose
I still think it's a little weird dylan won the nobel prize
this might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life. honestly.
Daniel Cropp h
They are so in sync it's almost like they never stopped singing together. Beautiful and amazing.
Arguably Paul Simon's best song. The meaning is so much more than a trip across this country. It is a hunt for the true America--one that in these present days, is perhaps little more than a dream. But those of who understand what the true America really is will forever fight for a country that is a far cry from those who have little idea of what this country truly means.
Not sure of the political implication to your comment. I would say, though, that the rabid flag waivers as well as the vicious left wing cancel culture might both need some Mrs. Wagner pies.
I could not have said it better...it is so sad it hurts. So few understand what America was and I hope what it will be again.
America is hope and dreams, then you make it big and guess what?, America is lost again.
@@britturk123 Great Britain has the same problems, doesn't know what it is any more, it shone like a beacon for freedom and faith
Oh really? And there was me just thinking it was about a bus ride……..
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'.
Oh dear sweet Paul, I’ll be road tripping next week from Chicago to NYC to see your final farewell concert... ❤️
Paul Simon is a musical genius
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.
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?
I was there. Right below the camera tower at age 15. I became a real person at “Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike “. The crowd reaction was like an epiphany. I wasn’t alone.
The music collective. Read about how they changed frequencies to dissipate this feeling
@@day245 fucking hell, get outta your basement. It was a live concert. Changed frequencies to keep people from feeling communal? Get out of your head. JFC.
@@cogitoergosumo1793 No shit !
I was in Paris a few months later ☺
@@s.baumard8161 y
My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song out of so many. It makes me feel nostalgic like something I did in my past even though I didn't.
Their songs are so much of the fabric of America.
Not sure if it’s just me but this sounds more like a lament of America than a tribute
Likewise. My spine tingles.
@@petere6162 Can't you feel both? I can.
Hey I’m not even American , never traveled on a Greyhound but I feel a profound sense of sadness and nostalgia when I hear this beautiful song … I don’t know why
the song is the experience of every teenager that came of age in America in the 1960s
you got your license and your first car
and went off with a friend or lover on the Great American Road Trip
thinking you will find or discover something .... experience something.... you dont know what
not understanding the seeking and the journey is the thing
Years ago I had recently divorced after 28 years, and found myself odds with what might be next. I gave myself the time to fill a long held dream and rode my bike across the country. This song was the soundtrack in my head the whole way. I can’t hear it without thinking of the America I saw. I finished the ride and knew exactly what to do next. The ride, and this song, were transformative.
Hope u are ok now>>divorce must be hard
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
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" 😍
Watching this today after seeing a documentary about it being Art’s 80th. Beautiful lyrics and sounds. One of the best partnerships in musical history.
Got to agree their brilliant.
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😍♥️
I keep coming back to this one. Feels so nostalgic.
Me Too, THIS and now at age 67, BookEnds does ot for me also ♥️
When music had meaning.
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've yet to find a live performance by any group that sounds as good as this historic set.
The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense are pretty darn good. Vocally no one in either of those groups is as good as these two but the music is certainly on par.
The seekers at the Sydney mayer music bowl is really good too
I will always play this song when I drive down New Jersey Turnpike. Never thought this song from 50 years ago would make me feel that way.
It is a timeless song that pulls atour heart strings. We see ourselves in the song ♥️
Songwriting simply doesn't get any better than this
Love you so much Paul and Art 🎭
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
I never new that two voices and a guitar could be so good!!!
"....and the moon rose over an open field..."
Just...............wow.
Always yearned to jump on a bus and travel to unknown destinations. This is the perfect road song.
The greatest duo of all time!
I was there and this concert will never be forgotten!
September 1981 Central Park, NYC
Simon could write some great lyrics
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.😧
*Remember when the world looked like this?*
My heart breaks for the young people today. They have no idea how lovely it could be.
C est tout à fait vrai.
@@annielaffond6073 D'accord. And your France, sweet France, still exists? ❤️ "Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance, je vous aime dans mon coeur ... " Pardon me, my horrible French lingua franca , but I'm sure you've got the feeling. Salute, au revoir.
Surely one of THE greatest concerts.
Paul Simon is Perfect 🙏❤️🙏
My God seriously together they were magic! Being there was the icing on the cake 😉🤙😎
What a wonderful story teller Paul is.One of the best infact
So sad they parted ways. They where both at their very best as a duo. The blending of their amazing voices and songs was a major part of the history of music at that time.. Great as solo acts - but were beyond amazing together... Glad I had a chance as a baby boomer to share in real time the amazing duo of Simon and Garfunkel..
I'm a generation older than the baby boomers, but this song awakened me to the memes of your generation. I grew up then.
I agree. I always felt that popular music lost much of its mojo when the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel broke up at around the same time, and later the brilliant "My Little Town" showed what could have been.
I thoroughly agree with you their voices combined together contributed to their immense success
Paul Simon the star.
Writer, singer and songwriter.
They are back on tour. So your dream has come true.
Poetry in music and truth. Love
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.
Those guys had voices that were made to be joined in sound! Not many we ever hear like them. Miss them.
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 !
A very beautiful song. "And the moon rose over an open field... counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike they've all come to look for America".
Does it get any better. My god how blessed were our generation.
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 makes me cry.
I found now !
the word America means ourselves.
I am not an American. But this song for world young people.
Thank you...thank you...thank you!!!!
I was at this concert all the way in the back it was such a beautiful evening and beautiful concert
Me too...and I agree. Beautiful evening and beautiful concert.
You're a so lucky. I was born too late.
A beautiful little winding evening :)
My Dad brought me and my brother up with this music and he is suffering with dementia now, it's equally comforting and painful to listen to. 💔
Paul Simon might actually be the greatest song writer
Marian N He has my vote.
Art Garfunkel’s voice trips me out.
Phenomenal 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎶💖
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!
How can ANYONE give this a thumb's down?? It was wonderful!!! Beautifully performed. Great lyrics, singing.. Their's was a match made in Heaven!! Performing live & sounding superb!!
A troll's gotta troll
how can ANYONE have a different opinion from me??
Because their are democrats still around and hunting for votes.
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 at this concert. Amazing live show.
And singing with your arms crossed... how unconciously talented 😀
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.
Does anyone write lyrics like this anymore? Brilliant.
Just singing a great song Garfunkel with his arns crossed.Things were simple back then.
Genius. All I can say.
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.
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 .❤😊
Genius pure and simple. A great song about a remarkable country. Sends shivers down my spine.
I was there, right in the middle of the crowd. Wonderful evening!
I’m here...still loving their music 2020, so poetic and harmonious, just what I need at this time 🙏🏻