GRACELAND

LEVEL 5E · 120 BPM · Paul Simon

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TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN

Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.

HOW TO PLAY

1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.

LYRICS

The (E)Mis sis sip pi Del ta was shin ing like a Na tion al gui (A)tar.

I am (C#m)fol low ing the riv er down the high way through the cra dle of the Civ il (B)War.

(A)I’m go ing to Grace land, Grace land in Mem phis, Ten nes (B)see.

(A)I’m go ing to Grace land.

For rea sons I (E)Poor boys and pil grims with fam i lies and (B)we (A)are go ing to Grace land.

And I may be My (E)trav ’ling com pan ion is (A)nine and years ty old.

or He is the (E)child in’ of my first mar riage.

May But I’ve a (E)rea son to be lieve we both will be re (B)ceived (A)in Grace land.

She comes back to tell me she’s gone.

Cit y who calls her self The Hu man Tram As (A)if I did n’t know that, as if I did n’t know my own bed, times when I’m fall ing, fly ing or tum bl ing in tur moil I as (B)if I’d nev er no ticed means.” the way she brushed her hair to (E)from her fore head.

And she said los

ing love is like a win dow in your (A)heart.

Ev ’ry bod y sees you’re (C#m)blown a part,

ev ’ry bod y sees the (B)wind blow.

(A)I’m go ing to Grace land, Grace land.

in Mem phis, Ten nes (B)see.

(A)I’m go ing to Grace land.

For rea sons I (E)Poor boys and pil grims with fam i lies and (B)we (A)are go ing to Grace land.

And I may be My (E)trav ’ling com pan ions are (A)ghosts ev emp end sock or ets.

be I’m (E)look in’ at ghosts and emp ties.

May But I’ve a (E)rea son to be lieve we all will be re (B)ceived (A)in Grace land.

She There is a girl in New York Cit y who calls her self The Hu man Tram po (A)line, I did n’t know that, as if I did n’t know my and some times when I’m fall ing, fly ing or tum bl ing in tur moil I say, (B)“Oh, so this is what she means.” She means we’re bounc ing in to (E)Grace land.