Paul Simon – The Late Great Johnny Ace (Guitar)

The guitar on Simon's recording, however, seems to be tuned down 2 steps. 
So another option to play this song would be to tune down your guitar to 
D-G-C-F-A-d and transpose this chord sheet +2 (first chord = Bbmaj7) to 
match the original key. The Middle 8 especially plays effortlessley using 
the open 5th string (G).

CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Abmaj7    4-x-5-5-4-x
D7        x-5-4-5-3-x
F/C       x-3-x-2-1-1
A7sus2    x-0-2-0-0-0
Gsus4     3-x-0-0-1-x
G *       3-x-0-0-0-x
Gadd9     3-x-0-2-x-x

C/G       3-x-2-0-1-x
G7 *      3-x-3-0-3-x
F/G       3-x-3-2-1-x
Bb/G      3-x-0-3-3-1
Cm/G      3-x-5-5-4-x
C*/G      3-x-5-5-5-x
Cb/G      3-x-4-4-4-x
Bb/G      3-x-3-3-3-x
Gbdim7    2-x-1-2-1-x
Bb9       x-1-0-1-1-1
Ebmaj7    x-x-1-3-3-3
Bb7-9     x-1-0-1-0-x

Abmaj7           D7
 I was reading a magazine

Abmaj7                      D7
Thinking of a rock and roll song

    Abmaj7            D7
The year was nineteen fifty-six

      G                        G7
And I hadn't been playing that long

       C        F/C    C   C7
When a man came on the radio

    F               Bb7  Am7
And this is what he said

          Dm               E
He said I hate to break it to his fans

    A7sus2        Fmaj7            [ Am7 ] 
But Johnny Ace is dead, yeah, yeah, yeah

        Abmaj7               D7
Well, I really wasn't such a Johnny Ace fan

      Abmaj7           D7
But I felt bad alI the same

     Abmaj7            D7
So I sent away for his photograph

      G              G7
And I waited till it came

        C       F/C      C    C7
It came all the way from Texas

       F              Bb7  Am7
With a sad and simple face

         Dm               E
And they signed it on the bottom

         A7sus2            Fmaj7            [ Am7 ] 
From the Late Great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah

           C/G  G7 *   C/G
It was the year of The Beatles

F/G        C/G         G7 *   C/G  F/G
It was the year of The Stones

       C/G G7 * C/G F/G | C/G G7 *| C/G F/G | C/G G7 *| C/G F/G |
It was nineteen sixty - four

      C/G  G7 *    Bb/G 
I was li - ving in London

Cm/G     C*/G Cb/G     Bb/G    | Gbdim7 |2/4 F7 |4/4 G7 |
With the girl from the summer before

           C/G  G7 *   C/G
It was the year of The Beatles

F/G        C/G         G7 *   C/G  F/G
It was the year of The Stones

  C/G  G7 *  C/G F/G | C/G G7 *| C/G F/G | C/G G7 *| C/G F/G |
A year after J.  F.  K.

        C/G     G7 *Bb/G Cm/G
We were staying up  all  night

    C*/G   Cb/G Bb/G G | F | Bb9 {
And giving the  days a-way

        Ebmaj7    Abmaj7   Ebmaj7   Bb7-9     [ Abmaj7 ] 
And the music was flowing amazingly blowing my way

     Abmaj7        D7
On a cold December evening

      Abmaj7                        D7
I was walking through the Christmas tide

       Abmaj7               D7
When a stranger came up and asked me

       G                     G7
If I'd heard John Lennon had died

        C      F/C     C       C7
And the two of us went to this bar

       F                   Bb7  Am7
And we stayed to close the place

    Dm            E
And every song we played

            A7sus2            Fmaj7            [ Am7 ] 
Was for The Late Great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah