Words & music by Paul Simon 1965
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He was A Most Peculiar Man.
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That's what Missus Riordan said and she should know;
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She lived upstairs from him
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She said he was A Most Peculiar Man.
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He was A Most Peculiar Man.
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He lived all alone within a house,
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Within a room, within himself,
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A Most Peculiar Man.
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He had no friends, he seldom spoke
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And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
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'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
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And he wasn't like them.
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Oh, no! he was A Most Peculiar Man.
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He died last Sa-aturday.
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He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
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With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
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To his silent world and his tiny room;
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And Missus Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
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Who should be notified soon.
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And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
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But wasn't he A Most Peculiar Man?"
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