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

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.

#1.
         Em (022000@1)              GI (320003@1)know a man..he came from my home town.
            Em (022000@1)            DHe (xx0232@1)wore his passion for his woman like a 
Cthorny (x32010@1)crown.
               G (320003@1)             EmHe (022000@1)said, Dol...ores, I live in fear.
            G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)            CMy (x32010@1)love for you's so overpowering, I'm afraid 
       D (xx0232@1)     Gthat (320003@1)I will disappear.

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.

#2.
         Em (022000@1)            GI (320003@1)know a woman..became a wife.
              Em (022000@1)           D (xx0232@1)        CThese (x32010@1)are the very words she uses to describe 

her life.
            G (320003@1)                    EmShe (022000@1)said, A good day..Ain't got no rain. 
            G (320003@1)              DShe (xx0232@1)said, A bad day's when I lie in bed
    C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)             Gand (320003@1)think of things that might have been.

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.

#3.
         Em (022000@1)  D (xx0232@1)           GI (320003@1)know a fath..er, who had a son.
             C (x32010@1)              DHe (xx0232@1)longed to tell him all the reasons for the 
Cthings (x32010@1)he'd done.
          G (320003@1)                EmHe (022000@1)came a long way just to explain.
              G (320003@1)           DHe (xx0232@1)kissed his boy as he lay sleeping,
        C (x32010@1)               D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)  F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Gthen (320003@1)he turned around and headed home again.

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.

#4. 
         Em (022000@1)                 GGod (320003@1)only knows..God makes his plan.
         Em (022000@1)       D (xx0232@1)              CThe (x32010@1)information's unavailable to the mortal man.
                  G (320003@1)               EmWe're (022000@1)working our jobs..collect our pay,
              G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)           
believe we're gliding down the highway,
        C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)     Gwhen (320003@1)in fact we're slip slidin' away.

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)                EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away..slip slidin' away.
             G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)know the nearer your destination,
    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)      Gthe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away.


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.