Written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, the song tells the story of a young man heading for the road, leaving a lover behind.

The opening track piano riff was made by Larry Knechtel, with J.J. Cale performing the guitar solo.

Paul Simon sang harmony on the final verse and chorus with Garfunkel, along with Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead playing lead guitar (overdubbed later by Roy Halee in San Francisco).

The calypso based song (which would later be a hit for Boney M),[5] written by Van Morrison, was changed from calypso to a Latin beat by Jim Gordon, with Milt Holland providing the prominent percussion (namely agogo bells, timbales and maracas), Joe Osborn on bass and Jules Broussard performing the saxophone solo, based on an Antônio Carlos Jobim song that he had heard early that year.

Garfunkel himself admitted that he tended, in those days, to listen to the melody before the words and so was quite happy to embed a strong string arrangement and vocal changes.

Randy Newman, the song's composer, however, went on to say that he actually loved Garfunkel's version, despite bad press from Rolling Stone magazine.

(the fifth track of the album) was a combination of the traditional Haitian folk song with a middle section based on the melody of J.S.

"Special thanks to - Audie Ashworth, Cass Elliot, Diane Doherty, Michelle Haystrand, Mike Kranzke, Ron Haffkine."