HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
By Paul Simon
Performed by Simon & Garfunkel
Transcribed for the bass by Mike Schorsch on 12-31-97

This is about as accurate as I could get the bassline, and it's very close to the actual thing.
It's pretty easy to figure out where the lyrics fit in if you listen to the song on Bookends,
so I did not include them.

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Lyrics:
Time, Time, Time, see what's become of me.
While I looked around for my possibilities
I was so hard to please.
But look around, leaves are brown,
and the sky is a hazy shade of winter.

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside it's bound to be a bitter ride
than what you've got planned.
Carry your cup in your hand.

And look around, leaves are brown,
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.

"But hang on to your hopes my friend."
That's an easy thing to say, but if your hope should pass away
It's simply pretend that you can build them again.

Look around, grass is high, fields are ripe,
It's the springtime of my life.

Ah, seasons change with the scenery, weaving time in a tapestry,
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time.
Funny how my memory skips while looking over manucsripts
of unpublished rhyme.
Drinking my vodka and lime.

I look around, leaves are brown.
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.
Look around, leaves are brown, there's a patch of snow on the ground. (repeat)