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Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan
Capo 3
Drop D tuning
Intro: / D - - - / x4
Chorus:
G/B A D G/B
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
D G/B A (2)
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
G/B A D G/B
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
D G/B A D (4)
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.
G/B A D G/B
Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand,
D G/B
Vanished from my hand,
D G/B A (2)
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
G/B A D G/B
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
D G/B
I have no one to meet
D G/B A (2)
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.
Chorus
G/B A D G/B
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship,
D G/B D G/B
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
D G/B D G/B
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
A (2)
To be wandering.
G/B A D G/B
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
D G/B D G/B (1 1/2)
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
A (2)
I promise to go under it.
Chorus
G/B A
Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging
D G/B
madly across the sun,
D G/B D G/B
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run
D G/B A (2)
And but for the sky there are no fences facing.
G/B A D G/B
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
D G/B D G/B
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
D G/B D
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
G/B A
Seeing that he's chasing.
Chorus
Instrumental: / G/B - - - / A - - - /
/ D - - - / G/B - - - / x6
/ A - - - / - - - - /
/ G/B - - - / A - - - /
/ D - - - / G/B - - - / x4
/ A - - - /
/ D - - - / x4
G/B A D G/B
Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind,
D G/B D G/B
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
D G/B D G/B
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
D G/B A (2)
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
G/B A D G/B
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
D G/B D G/B
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
D G/B D G/B
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
D G/B A
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Chorus
End on D
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
