Every stop is neatly planned

Jesus loves you more than you will know.

She once was a true love of mine.

Just a 'come-on' from the w****s on 7th Avenue.

Home, where my thoughts escaping.

Precisely the officer's point. A brilliant bit of satire by Mr. Simon.

The whole song is completely random. They're being singing cornflakes, then jam-fan muffins, then a lieutenant... And nothing is related to the title.

When they played this song on an oldies station, during the end of it, my brother wondered whether or not the record was stuck.

Feelin' groovy,or to give it it's full title-59th Street Bridge song,Feelin' groovy-is one of those numbers which practically everyone's heard or heard snatches of from time to time.The full lyrics of this thing read like the very depths of idiocy.I tried to discover if the number had any possible story behind it.As usual the possible origins seemed as common as starlings.Someone even suggested it had something to do with Fidel Castro.Yeah,like,a little help over here please.Another guy said it's related to the fact that the 59th Street Bridge is the only way to drive from Queens to Manhattan for free.Going via the Midtown Tunnel you have to pay toll.Hence you're feelin' groovy having avoided that fee.That sounds almost as crazy as the Castro connection.A third theory proposes it's roots lie in a number about an ex jailbird called One more town.Checked that out and simply couldn't see any connection whatever.Just about the nearest I think I've come to the truth is a story about Paul Simon dreaming it up whilst walking along said 59th Street Bridge feeling somewhat depressed.As the words filtered into his head he started to feel a little,well,groovier?I know that explanation sounds wacky too,but like I said a sight less wackier than crap about Castro,fee avoidance,the sentiments of ex jailbirds and goodness knows what else.However,as I've mentioned guys, Feelin' groovy is itself wackiness personified.The guy concerned starts talking away to himself and inanimate objects.All the crap of the day pours forth-Slow down you move too fast-I'm dappled,drowsy,ready to sleep-[In spite of this intense lethargy he wants the morning to last,he's looking for fun and he's feelin' groovy]The two lines addressed to a lamp post I've picked out sound like a dog's thought processes as it answers nature's call.However he goes one better by asking the lamp post a question-Ain't you got no rhymes for me?This saddest of dudes-in more ways than one-also says he's got no work to go to and noone in his life.Scarcely surprising-Got no deeds to do.No promises to keep.He spouts fairyland drivel about allowing the morning to shower him with it's petals.He says he's little else to do but kick at cobblestones.The entire flood of almost inconcievable madhouse chatter is crowned out with this-Life,I love you,all is groovy.If it's at all possible for a song to make a nonsense even of nonsense itself,then I suspect that Feelin' groovy might just be up there contending with the likes of I am the walrus and Walk like an Egyptian.

Just one question: If he had no job, how did he pay them?

To Steve C Your middle school English teacher who thinks 'Joltin' Joe' refers to electro-shock is obviously a moron! 'Joltin' Joe' is just one of many nicknames the press had for DiMaggio. Also, the lines were put in by Paul Simon to lament the lack of real role models for young people in the turmoiled world of the Graduate, the late 60s

Oh yes and what if Mrs Robinson turns out to be an athieist? Then what would you do?

Apperently, Cecilia needs it bad!

Norman Mailer, Maxwell Taylor, John O'hara, Robert McNamara, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles

Robert Frost

New York Times and New York Daily News

Salvation Army

"My Little Town" was a special tune of coming back together for the duo, Simon & Garfunkel, back in 1975. "My Little Town" was released on both Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" lp and Garfunkel's "Breakaway" lp and was written by Paul Simon.

"Song For The Asking" is yet one more tune from Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 lp, "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

"Paul Simon summed it up, and his refrain "lie la lie" ain't no lie." To us, it does now sound like he is saying something, but in fact 'lie la lie' does have an interpetation in Hebrew, it means roughly 'nighty night.'