Paul Simon was in the news this week. Not only did the incomparable singer-songwriter appear on the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special performing “Homeward Bound” with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Sabrina Carpenter, but he also announced that he plans to tour again – seven years after he said he was calling it quits.

Simon said after his Farewell Tour in 2018 that he had developed hearing problems that wouldn’t allow to him to tour again even if he wanted to.

Not sure what’s changed, but his duet with Carpenter showed that the 83-year-old is still up to the task. Nevertheless, we’ll offer some prime-time Simon here – performing the same song on the same program nearly 50 years ago – this time with some guy named George Harrison taking the part of Simon’s original collaborator, Art Garfunkel.

Lyrics

I’m sitting in the railway station
Got a ticket to my destination
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escaping
Home where my music’s playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me

Every day’s an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And every stranger’s face I see reminds me that I long to be
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escaping
Home where my music’s playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again
I’ll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escaping
Home where my music’s playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Silently for me

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