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TAB BY EMERICK BOSCH
Easy song, I've just put in the main parts.
A possible strum could be: Down Up Slap Up (Strum down, strum up, slap the. strings
then strum up again, all. for 1 chord... capeesh?)
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SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - CECELIA
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A D A
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
D A E
You're shaking my confidence daily
A D A D
Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
A D E
I'm begging you please to come home
A D A
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
D A E
You're shaking my confidence daily
A D A D
Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
A D E
I'm begging you please to come home
F
Come on home
A D E A
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
D E A
Up in my bedroom
D E
I got up to wash my face
A
When I come back to bed
E A
Someone's taken my place
A D A
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
D A E
You're shaking my confidence daily
A D A D
Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
A D E
I'm begging you please to come home
D A D A
Jubilation, she loves me again
D A E
I fall on the floor and I laughing
D A D A
Jubilation, she loves me again
D A E
I fall on the floor and I laughing
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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randy Professional |
#1 by randy taylor at Jun 25, 1971 at 8:07 PM EST |
| I just see it as telling about his relationship with a girl, who constantly is making him question whether she is his girl or not. "you're breaking my confidence daily" - as in, he never knows where he stands with her. The frustrations of a relationship! :) On a side note, I think this is one of my favorite songs to play on the jukebox at the bar in college. It is a GREAT sing-a-long, clap, stomp song. I love the funky beat at the very beginning. Good times. | |
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Ace Average |
#2 by Ace Of Spades at Sep 26, 1973 at 4:13 AM EST |
| It does make sense that he would write about St. Cecilia if she is the saint of music, but it seems to me that he is talking about someone that he falls in love with, who then falls in love with someone else, and eventually falls back in love with him. I think hes just using making love as an interpretation of having a deep relationship with someone. | |
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Razzle Wanna Be |
#3 by Razzle jester at Jul 13, 1977 at 4:55 AM EST |
| and if bob dylan can write "everybody must get stoned," simon&garfunkel can write a song about a hooker, sex, gangbang, whatever. | |
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FrEAk!!! Wanna Be |
#4 by FrEAk!!! Matis at Dec 11, 1981 at 10:49 PM EST |
| FYI sexy80sbabe. Dylan's "Rainy day Women" is not about getting high. Most people think it refers to his trials and tribulations with female relationships, or being judged no matter what you do. As is in ye olde days of Jesus stoned. So the S&G reference to St. Cecilia isn't that outrageous. Second, I always thought Paul was playing a little coy making it sound as if he's singing about a girl. Cause it could easily be both. | |
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Brad Lead Player |
#5 by Brad Vincent at Jun 3, 1987 at 4:42 AM EST |
| whatever the meaning, I used to just start singing the chorus when I was little, I didn't know that it was an actual SONG, or anything. But then the other day I started singing it and thought what the heck, and googled it. The result: I now know I'm not dellusional, Cecilia is a real song, and I love it despite whatever meaning it may have according to you peoples. | |
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Charlie Average |
#6 by Charlie Fletcher at Jun 23, 1987 at 2:13 PM EST |
| We all do something which is very natural to us. One day we wake up and find that we cant do it anymore. We have lost it. This is what I guess Simon means when "When I come back to bed, Someone's taken my place". If you have been in that state, you know how hard it feels. And the JOY of getting it back is incomparable. And hence the "fall on the floor and I laughing". This could be taken as a girl or the gift of music Paul & Art had. | |
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nick Professional |
#7 by nick Sutliff at Jul 29, 1987 at 6:27 AM EST |
| Paul Simon described it as "a bit of musical fluff... but it worked!" I love the St. Cecelia thing though. Defintiely brings new meaning. I thought it was slightly unsophisticated for the genius himself! | |
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Joonas Wanna Be |
#8 by Joonas Luukkainen at Sep 13, 1988 at 8:17 PM EST |
| Even though it makes the song seem more shallow and typical, I kind of like the 'love story' interpretation better. It makes the song much sweeter that way. | |
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M Average |
#9 by M K-O at Mar 2, 1991 at 6:54 PM EST |
| I absoloutley adore this song and even sometimes connect it with my love. The main message I get out of it is that he loves this girl and thinks she loves him back. However the girls afraid of getting too close and has to be distant which makes Paul think she doesn't love him. The intensity of it all is driving him crazy.. ''Jubilation, she loves me again. I fall on the floor, and I'm laughing.'' | |
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Micke Lead Player |
#10 by Micke Nordin at Mar 8, 1994 at 3:08 AM EST |
| When I was little, my mom told me this was "my song" because she had planned on naming me Alexandra Cecilia after my great-great grandmother, Margaret Cecilia Bergin. Unfortunately, she stuck me with Bergin instead, but even though I'm 18 now, I still consider this to be "my song." A little lame, I know, but I love it. I even got the DJ to play it at my senior prom. | |
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† james † Average |
#11 by † james † at Sep 29, 1995 at 12:26 PM EST |
| I have always taken this song to be about his relationship with his music, with the dating type relationship as a well placed metaphor. (taking "Cecilia" as a religious refference to St Cecilia, the patron saint of music; a catholic figure- taking note also that it is quite common to find religious refferences in Simon and Garfunkel's music) | |
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micheal Lead Player |
#12 by micheal mceachern at Jun 20, 1997 at 7:39 PM EST |
| I take things at face value but i interpreted this as a guy who falls in love with a girl who is in love with someone else and then the girl falls in love with the original guy. | |
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Rob Average |
#13 by Rob Jones at Jul 13, 2007 at 6:12 AM EST |
| i like this song a lot. i chose my confirmation name as cecilia due to this song(and also because she was the saint of music) | |
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