Big Deal Music Group: What song do you wish you wrote?
John Ryan: I really like Slip Slidin' Away [by] Paul Simon, as a song.
— YouTube interview (2019)
Connection
These songs share
- Phonetically similar words ("had"/"have", "money"/"mighty", "son"/"young") occur in the same rhythmic locations (underlined)
- Two measures of unaccompanied lyrics alternate with two measures of rhythmically and harmonically similar guitar chord stabs
- The highlighted sections of melody are identical
Connection
Points of connection
- These songs share a rhythmically and lyrically identical 4̂-3̂-2̂ melody in the key of A major
- Girl Almighty contains substantial material from another Paul Simon song (The Obvious Child)