A song where Paul Simon wondered what he would've been in a previous life. With the assistance of a little hashish, he concluded that about a century earlier, he was a tailor. There's a strange little spoken word segment in the middle where a woman welcomes a Mr. Leitch entering a tailor shop. The guy she referred to was Donovan (Leitch) and the female voice was Beverley Martyn, both British friends of Simon and Garfunkel. Since the 45 ran 3:14 and AM radio was still generally averse to playing songs over three minutes, the label was printed with a running time of 2:74. It worked.
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