Lyrics and translation Paul Simon - Ace In the Hole
Some
people
say
Jesus,
that's
the
ace
in
the
hole
Certaines
personnes
disent
que
Jésus
est
l'as
dans
le
trou
But
I
never
met
the
Man
so,
I
don't
really
know
Mais
je
n'ai
jamais
rencontré
l'Homme,
alors
je
ne
sais
pas
vraiment
Maybe
some
Christmas,
if
I'm
sick
and
alone
Peut-être
que,
un
Noël,
si
je
suis
malade
et
seul
He
will
look
up
my
number
and
call
me
on
the
phone
and
say
Il
cherchera
mon
numéro
et
m'appellera
au
téléphone
pour
dire
"Hey,
boy,
where
you
been
so
long?
"Hé,
mon
garçon,
où
étais-tu
depuis
si
longtemps
?
Don't
you
know
Me?
Tu
ne
Me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
Je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
Two
hundred
dollars,
that's
my
ace
in
the
hole
Deux
cents
dollars,
c'est
mon
as
dans
le
trou
When
I'm
down,
dirty
and
desperate
that's
my
emergency
bank
roll
Quand
je
suis
à
plat,
sale
et
désespéré,
c'est
mon
fonds
de
secours
I
got
two
hundred
dollars,
that's
the
price
on
the
street
J'ai
deux
cents
dollars,
c'est
le
prix
dans
la
rue
If
you
wanna
get
some
quality
that's
the
price
you
got
to
meet
and
the
man
says
Si
tu
veux
obtenir
de
la
qualité,
c'est
le
prix
à
payer
et
l'homme
dit
Hey,
Junior,
where
you
been
so
long?
Hé,
Junior,
où
étais-tu
depuis
si
longtemps
?
Don't
you
know
me?
Tu
ne
me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
Je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
Talk
about
ace
in
the
hole
Parle
d'as
dans
le
trou
Once
I
was
crazy
and
my
ace
in
the
hole
J'étais
autrefois
fou
et
mon
as
dans
le
trou
Was
that
I
knew
that
I
was
crazy
C'était
de
savoir
que
j'étais
fou
So,
I
never
lost
my
self-control
Alors,
je
n'ai
jamais
perdu
le
contrôle
de
moi-même
I
just
walk
in
the
middle
of
the
road
Je
marche
juste
au
milieu
de
la
route
I'd
sleep
In
the
middle
of
the
bed
Je
dormais
au
milieu
du
lit
I
stop
in
the
middle
of
a
sentence
Je
m'arrête
au
milieu
d'une
phrase
And
the
voice
in
the
middle
of
my
head
said
Et
la
voix
au
milieu
de
ma
tête
a
dit
Hey,
hey,
hey,
Junior,
where
you
been
so
long?
Hé,
hé,
hé,
Junior,
où
étais-tu
depuis
si
longtemps
?
Don't
you
know
me?
Tu
ne
me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
(oh,
yeah)
Je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
(oh,
oui)
Ace
In
the
hole,
lean
on
me
As
dans
le
trou,
appuie-toi
sur
moi
Don't
you
know
me?
Tu
ne
me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
guarantee
Je
suis
ta
garantie
Riding
on
this
rolling
bus
beneath
a
stormy
sky
Je
roule
dans
ce
bus
roulant
sous
un
ciel
orageux
With
a
slow
moon
rising
and
the
smokestacks
drifting
by
Avec
une
lune
lente
qui
se
lève
et
les
cheminées
qui
dérivent
In
the
hour
when
the
heart
is
weakest
and
memory
is
strong
À
l'heure
où
le
cœur
est
le
plus
faible
et
où
la
mémoire
est
forte
When
time
has
stopped
but
the
bus
just
rolls
along
Lorsque
le
temps
s'est
arrêté
mais
que
le
bus
roule
toujours
Roll
on,
roll
on
Roule,
roule
Roll
on,
roll
on
Roule,
roule
Roll
on,
roll
on
Roule,
roule
Some
people
say
music,
that's
their
ace
in
the
hole
Certaines
personnes
disent
que
la
musique,
c'est
leur
as
dans
le
trou
Just
your
ordinary
rhythm
and
blues
or
your
basic
rock
and
roll
Juste
ton
rythme
et
blues
ordinaire
ou
ton
rock
and
roll
de
base
You
can
sit
on
the
top
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
t'asseoir
sur
le
dessus
du
rythme
You
can
lean
on
the
side
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
t'appuyer
sur
le
côté
du
rythme
You
can
hang
from
the
bottom
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
te
suspendre
au
bas
du
rythme
But
you
got
to
admit
that
the
music
is
sweet
Mais
il
faut
admettre
que
la
musique
est
douce
Where
you
been
so
long?
Où
étais-tu
depuis
si
longtemps
?
Don't
you
know
me?
Tu
ne
me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
(oh,
yeah)
Je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
(oh,
oui)
Ace
in
the
hole,
lean
on
me
As
dans
le
trou,
appuie-toi
sur
moi
Don't
you
know
me?
Tu
ne
me
connais
pas
?
I'm
your
guarantee
Je
suis
ta
garantie
Some
people
say
music,
that's
their
ace
in
the
hole
Certaines
personnes
disent
que
la
musique,
c'est
leur
as
dans
le
trou
Just
your
ordinary
rhythm
and
blues
or
your
basic
rock
and
roll
Juste
ton
rythme
et
blues
ordinaire
ou
ton
rock
and
roll
de
base
You
can
sit
on
the
top
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
t'asseoir
sur
le
dessus
du
rythme
You
can
lean
on
the
side
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
t'appuyer
sur
le
côté
du
rythme
You
can
hang
from
the
bottom
of
the
beat
Tu
peux
te
suspendre
au
bas
du
rythme
But
you
gotta
admit
that
the
music
is
sweet
Mais
il
faut
admettre
que
la
musique
est
douce
Hey,
junior,
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
Hé,
mon
petit,
je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
Hey,
junior,
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
Hé,
mon
petit,
je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
Hey,
junior,
I'm
your
ace
in
the
hole
Hé,
mon
petit,
je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
Hey,
junior,
I'm
your
ace
In
the
hole
Hé,
mon
petit,
je
suis
ton
as
dans
le
trou
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1
The Story of "Graceland" as Told By Paul Simon
2 A Most Peculiar Man
3 Oh, Marion
4 I Know What I Know
5 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
6 St. Judy's Comet
7 Was a Sunny Day
8 Congratulations
9 Run That Body Down
10 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
11 Tenderness
12 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
13 Hobo's Blues
14 Satin Summer Nights
15 Time Is an Ocean
16 That Was Your Mother
17 Father and Daughter
18 Adiós Hermanos
19 Sunday Afternoon
20 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
21 A Church Is Burning
22 All Because of You (Outtake)
23 April Come She Will
24 Armistice Day
25 Bernadette
26 Born At the Right Time
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 The Sound Of Silence
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
73 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
74 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
75 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
76 Can I Forgive Him
77 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
78 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
79 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
80 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
81 Allergies
82 Cars Are Cars
83 Hearts and Bones
84 Song About the Moon
85 Think Too Much (b)
86 The Late Great Johnny Ace
87 When Numbers Get Serious
88 The Obvious Child - Live
89 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
90 She Moves On (Live)
91 Born At The Right Time - Live
92 Train in the Distance - Live
93 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
94 I Know What I Know (Live)
95 The Cool, Cool River - Live
96 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
97 Proof (Live)
98 The Coast (Live)
99 Graceland - Live
100 You Can Call Me Al - Live
101 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
102 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
103 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
104 Late in the Evening - Live
105 America (Live)
106 The Boxer (Live)
107 Cecilia (Live)
108 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
109 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
110 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
111 Crazy Love - Demo
112 The Coast
113 Further To Fly
114 The Cool, Cool River
115 Spirit Voices
116 Old (Live)
117 Hurricane Eye (Live)
118 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
119 Everything About It Is a Love Song
120 Outrageous
121 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
122 Wartime Prayers
123 Beautiful
124 Another Galaxy
125 Love and Hard Times
126 Hurricane Eye
127 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
128 The Vampires
129 Quality
130 That's Where I Belong
131 Darling Lorraine
132 Old
133 You're the One
134 The Teacher
135 Look at That
136 Love & Blessings
137 So Beautiful or so What
138 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
139 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
140 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
141 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
142 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
143 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
144 Papa Hobo
145 I Am a Rock
146 The Side of a Hill
147 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
148 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
149 Mother and Child Reunion
150 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
151 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
152 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
153 Think Too Much (A)
154 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
155 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
156 Ace In the Hole
157 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
158 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
159 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
160 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
161 Something So Right (Live)
162 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
163 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
164 Have a Good Time
165 Silent Eyes
166 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
2 A Most Peculiar Man
3 Oh, Marion
4 I Know What I Know
5 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
6 St. Judy's Comet
7 Was a Sunny Day
8 Congratulations
9 Run That Body Down
10 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
11 Tenderness
12 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
13 Hobo's Blues
14 Satin Summer Nights
15 Time Is an Ocean
16 That Was Your Mother
17 Father and Daughter
18 Adiós Hermanos
19 Sunday Afternoon
20 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
21 A Church Is Burning
22 All Because of You (Outtake)
23 April Come She Will
24 Armistice Day
25 Bernadette
26 Born At the Right Time
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 The Sound Of Silence
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
73 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
74 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
75 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
76 Can I Forgive Him
77 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
78 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
79 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
80 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
81 Allergies
82 Cars Are Cars
83 Hearts and Bones
84 Song About the Moon
85 Think Too Much (b)
86 The Late Great Johnny Ace
87 When Numbers Get Serious
88 The Obvious Child - Live
89 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
90 She Moves On (Live)
91 Born At The Right Time - Live
92 Train in the Distance - Live
93 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
94 I Know What I Know (Live)
95 The Cool, Cool River - Live
96 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
97 Proof (Live)
98 The Coast (Live)
99 Graceland - Live
100 You Can Call Me Al - Live
101 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
102 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
103 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
104 Late in the Evening - Live
105 America (Live)
106 The Boxer (Live)
107 Cecilia (Live)
108 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
109 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
110 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
111 Crazy Love - Demo
112 The Coast
113 Further To Fly
114 The Cool, Cool River
115 Spirit Voices
116 Old (Live)
117 Hurricane Eye (Live)
118 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
119 Everything About It Is a Love Song
120 Outrageous
121 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
122 Wartime Prayers
123 Beautiful
124 Another Galaxy
125 Love and Hard Times
126 Hurricane Eye
127 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
128 The Vampires
129 Quality
130 That's Where I Belong
131 Darling Lorraine
132 Old
133 You're the One
134 The Teacher
135 Look at That
136 Love & Blessings
137 So Beautiful or so What
138 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
139 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
140 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
141 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
142 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
143 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
144 Papa Hobo
145 I Am a Rock
146 The Side of a Hill
147 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
148 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
149 Mother and Child Reunion
150 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
151 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
152 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
153 Think Too Much (A)
154 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
155 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
156 Ace In the Hole
157 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
158 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
159 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
160 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
161 Something So Right (Live)
162 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
163 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
164 Have a Good Time
165 Silent Eyes
166 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
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