Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man    (video)    (live)    (clip)    (midi)

 

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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

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I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

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in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

 

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1. Though I know that evening’s empire has returned into sand,

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    vanished from my hand,

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    left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.

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    My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,

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    I have no one to meet,

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    and my ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.      +  CHORUS

 

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2. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship,

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    my senses have been stripped,

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    my hands can't feel to grip, my toes too numb to step,

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    wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

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    I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade,

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    into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,

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    I - promise  to go under it.              +  CHORUS

 

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3. Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging

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    madly across the sun, it's not aimed at anyone,

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    it's just escaping on the run,

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    and but for the sky there are no fences facing.

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    And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme,

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    to your tambourine in time,

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    it's just a ragged clown behind, I wouldn't pay it any mind,

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    it's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing.

 

+ CHORUS       +  G - A - D - G       + D - G (4x)      + D - G - Em - A

 

+  G - A - D - G      +  D - G (2x)         + D - G - Em - A - D

 

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4. And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind.

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    down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,

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    the haunted frightened trees, out  to the windy beach,

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    far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

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    Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,

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    silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,

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    with all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves,

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    let me forget about today until tomorrow."

 

+  CHORUS      +  G - A - D - G       + D - G (4x) ....

 

(orig. = capo 3rd; midi = no capo; live = capo 2nd) (Bob Dylan)