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261:"Still Crazy After All These Years" begins with the singer singing that "I met my old lover on the street last night." The "old lover" has been variously interpreted to be either Simon's ex-wife Peggy Harper, from whom he was recently divorced, his former girlfriend from the 1960s Kathy Chitty, or even Simon's former musical partner
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1555:So Beautiful or So What
1117:The Paul Simon Songbook
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417:Australia (
257:Composition
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