Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
1965

OK, I've moved from 1997 and Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers
to 1965 and Jakob's father, Bob!  I knew that I had to get
some of Bob's music, so I got his Greatest Hits from Columbia
House.  This is my first song from it.

Capo 2nd

INTRO:

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CHORUS
Bm      A              D               G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
        D                G               A
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Bm      A              D               G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
     D             G                 A         D
In a jingle-jangle morning I'll come following you

         Bm                  A          D             G
Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand
D                G            D               G                   A
Vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping

   Bm         A            D             G
My weariness amazes me I'm branded on my feet
  D              G            D             G                     A
I have no one to meet and the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming


CHORUS

Bm           A              D              G
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
   D                G           D                   G
My senses have been stripped my hands can't feel to grip
   D                G         D           G                A
My toes too numb to step wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

    Bm          A            D            G
I'm ready to go anywhere I'm ready for to fade
  D           G              D                G             A
Into my own parade cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it


CHORUS


Though you might hear laughin' spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing

And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time it's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind it's just a shadow you're seein' that he's chasing


CHORUS


Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow


CHORUS

fade out