[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:00.00] 作词 : Glass, Simon [00:15.25]I was reading a magazine [00:18.00]And thinking of a rock and roll song [00:21.61]The year was 1954 [00:25.15]And I hadn't been playing that long [00:28.64]When a man came on the radio [00:33.30]And this is what he said [00:38.20]He said "I hate to break it to his fans" [00:42.05]But Johnny Ace is dead, yeah, yeah, yeah [00:52.22]Well, I really wasn't, such a Johnny Ace fan [00:55.42]But I felt bad all the same [00:58.95]So I sent away for his photograph [01:02.40]And I waited till it came [01:05.74]It came all the way from Texas [01:10.19]With a sad and simple face [01:15.46]And they signed it on the bottom [01:19.04]From the late great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah [01:48.53]It was the year of the Beatles [01:50.80]It was the year of the Stones [01:53.63]Was 1964 [02:00.32]I was living in London [02:03.05]With the girl from the summer before, yeah, yeah, yeah [02:11.79]It was the year of the Beatles [02:14.02]It was the year of the Stones [02:16.94]A year after J.F.K [02:23.72]We were staying up all night and giving the days away [02:35.25]And the music was flowing amazing and blowing my way [02:57.31]On a cold December evening [03:00.55]I was walking through the Christmas tide [03:03.95]When a stranger came up and asked me [03:07.12]If I'd heard John Lennon had died [03:10.67]And the two of us went to this bar [03:15.18]And we stayed to close the place [03:20.69]And every song we played [03:22.87]Was for the late great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah