The story behind the lyrics of "The Only Living Boy in New York" is quite interesting. Before S&G released "The Sound of Silence", they were known as Tom and Jerry. During the period when they were working on songs for BOTW, Garfunkel flew down to Mexico to shoot a film, ("Tom, get on your plane….") leaving Simon alone as "The Only Living Boy in New York". Bob Dylan also dropped in while they were recording.
Have you heard the live version of "The Boxer" from The Concert in Central Park? They add another verse.
And there was just one more "Song for the Asking" - "My Little Town"!
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Everybody's dying just to get the disease
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