The late great johnny ace lyrics

Artist  : Paul simon 
Song : The late great johnny ace
 
I was reading a magazine 
And thinking of a rock and roll song 
The year was 1954 
And I hadn’t been playing that long 
When a man came on the radio 
And this is what he said 
He said I hate to break it  
To his fans 
But Johnny Ace is dead 
 
Well, I really wasn’t  
Such a Johnny Ace fan 
But I felt bad all the same 
So I sent away for his photograph 
And I waited till it came 
It came all the way from Texas 
With a sad and simple face 
And they signed it on the bottom 
From the Late Great Johnny Ace 
 
It was the year of the Beatles 
It was the year of the Stones 
It was 1964 
I was living in London  
With the girl from the summer before 
It was the year of the Beatles 
It was the year of the Stones 
A year after J.F.K. 
We were staying up all night  
And giving the days away 
And the music was flowing  
Amazing  
And blowing my way 
 
On a cold December evening 
I was walking through the Christmas tide 
When a stranger came up and asked me 
If I’d heard John Lennon had died 
And the two of us  
Went to this bar 
And we stayed to close the place 
And every song we played 
Was for the Late Great Johnny Ace