Words & music by Paul Simon 1975
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Yesterday it was my birthday
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I hung one more year on the line
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I should be depressed
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My life's a mess
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But I'm having a good time
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Oo, I've been loving and loving and loving
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I'm exhausted from loving so well
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I should go to bed
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But a voice in my head
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Says "Ah, what the hell"
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Have a good time
Eb |Bb |
Have a good time
F |Bb |
Have a good time
Eb |Bb |
Have a good time
F |Bb |Eb
Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
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But I think it's all overdone
|Bb |Eb Edim
Exaggerating this and exaggerating that
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They don't have no fun
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I don't believe what I read in the papers
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They're just out to capture my dime
Bb
I ain't worrying
Eb9| Edim
And I ain't scurrying;
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I'm having a good time
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Have a good time
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Have a good time
F |Bb |
Have a good time
Eb |Bb |
Have a good time
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Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster
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Maybe my race has been run
Bb |Eb Edim
Maybe I'm blind to the fate of mankind
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But what can be done?
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So God bless the goods we was given
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And God bless the U. S. of A.
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And God bless our standard of livin'
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Let's keep it that way
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And we'll all have a good time
Repeat and fade:
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Have a good time
F7 |Bb |
Have a good time
Eb9 |Bb |
Have a good time
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Have a good time
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