Ace In The Hole
written and performed by Paul Simon
from "One Trick Pony."
Transcribed by Erik Strom.
A7 Bm A Bm A7
Some people say Jesus that's the ace in the hole
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But I never met the man so I don't really know
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Maybe some Christmas if I'm sick and alone
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He will look up my number
Call me on the phone and say,
G/D Bm F#m
Hey----,boy, where you been so long?
G#m7-5
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7
I'm your ace in the hole
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Two hundred dollars, that's my ace in the hole
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When I'm down, dirty and desperate that's my emergency bank roll
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I got two hundred dollars, that's the price on the street
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If you wanna get some quality
That's the price you got to meet. And the man says,
G/D Bm F#m
Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
G#m7-5
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7
I'm your ace in the hole
A7 Bm A Bm
Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole
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Was that I knew that I was crazy So I never lost my self-control
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I just walk in the middle of the road I sleep in the middle of the bed
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I stop in the middle of a sentence
And the voice in the middle of my head said
G/D Bm F#m
Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
G#m7-5
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A/E D#m7-5
I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
Dmaj7
Ace in the hole
C#m5-5 A#dim
Lean on me
Bm7
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A Bm7/A A7
I'm your guarantee
G/D G
Riding on this rolling bus
F#m
Beneath a stony sky
Bm
With a slow moon rising
E7 A A7
And the smokestacks drifting by
G/D G
In the hour when the heart is weakest
F#m
And memory is strong
Bm
When time has stopped
E7 A7
and the bus just rolls along
D A
Roll on, roll on
D A
Roll on, roll on
D
Roll on, roll on
A A/G# F#m Bm E A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7 Bm A7
A7 Bm A Bm
Some people say music that's their ace in the hole
A7 Bm A7 Bm
Just your ordinary rhythm and blues Your basic rock and roll
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You can sit on the top of the beat; you can lean on the side of the beat
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You can hang from the bottom of the beat
But you got to admit that the music is sweet
G/D Bm F#m
Where you been so long?
G#m7-5
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A/E D#m7-5
I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
Dmaj7
Ace in the hole
C#m5-5 A#dim
Lean on me
Bm7
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F A7 Bm A Bm A7
I'm your guarantee
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