Paul Simon – Slip Slidin Away chords

Slip Slidin' Away:Paul Simon.
Album - Greatest Hits, Etc. - Single went
to #5 in 1977.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.

#1.
         Em                GI know a man..he came from my home town.
            Em              DHe wore his passion for his woman like a 
Cthorny crown.
               G               EmHe said, Dol...ores, I live in fear.
            G            D              CMy love for you's so overpowering, I'm afraid 
       D       Gthat I will disappear.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.

#2.
         Em              GI know a woman..became a wife.
              Em             D          CThese are the very words she uses to describe 

her life.
            G                      EmShe said, A good day..Ain't got no rain. 
            G                DShe said, A bad day's when I lie in bed
    C               D               Gand think of things that might have been.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.

#3.
         Em    D             GI know a fath..er, who had a son.
             C                DHe longed to tell him all the reasons for the 
Cthings he'd done.
          G                  EmHe came a long way just to explain.
              G             DHe kissed his boy as he lay sleeping,
        C                 D           G    F C Gthen he turned around and headed home again.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.

#4. 
         Em                   GGod only knows..God makes his plan.
         Em         D                CThe information's unavailable to the mortal man.
                  G                 EmWe're working our jobs..collect our pay,
              G                D             believe we're gliding down the highway,
        C               D       Gwhen in fact we're slip slidin' away.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.

CHORUS:
Em            G                  EmSlip slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G                 DYou know the nearer your destination,
    C                D        Gthe more you're slip slidin' away.


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.