Simon & Garfunkel - Mining for Old Friends

from a Dangerous Mind post: OLD FRIENDS: SIMON & GARFUNKEL, ‘LIVE AT THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL’ 1968

Simon & Garfunkel live on NBC’s The Kraft Music Hall, as originally broadcast on January 3, 1968.

They perform “A Poem On The Underground Wall,” “For Emily Whenever I May Find Her,” “Overs,” “Anji,” “Patterns,” “The Sounds Of Silence” and “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” joined by Nancy Wilson and Victor Borge, host of The Kraft Music Hall that evening. They’re also joined by Paul Simon’s brother, Ed, on guitar during “Anji.”

This was obviously sourced from a scratchy 16mm kinoscope, but the quality is fine. It’s not like there’s a lot of live Simon & Garfunkel material from the 1960's, so this is a treasure.

FOR EMILY, WHENEVER I MAY FIND HER

What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain
I wandered empty streets
Down past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alley ways
As I walked on

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke and felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears
Oh, I love you, girl
Oh, I love you 

OVERS

Why don’t we stop fooling ourselves?

The game is over, over, over

No good times, no bad times

There’s no times at all

Just the New York Times

Sitting on the windowsill

Near the flowers

We might as well be apart

It hardly matters

We sleep separately

And drop a smile passing in the hall

But there’s no laughs left

‘Cause we laughed them all

And we laughed them all

In a very short time

Time

Is tapping on my forehead

Hanging from my mirror

Rattling the teacups

And I wonder

How long can I delay?

We’re just a habit

Like saccharin

And I’m habitually feelin’ kinda blue

But each time I try on

The thought of leaving you

I stop…

I stop and think it over