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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Recorded during <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">The Basement</a> sessions (summer 1967)<br />
  18 Released in a live version from the Isle of Wight festival (1969) on
  19 <a class="recordlink" href="../10_selfportrait/index.htm">Self Portrait</a> (1970) and on <a href="../99_greatesthits2/index.htm" class="recordlink">Greatest Hits vol. 2</a>
  20 (1971). Original basement version released on <a class="recordlink" href="../28_biograph/index.htm">Biograph</a> (1985)<br />
  21 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  25 <h2 class="songversion"><em>Basement</em> (= <em>Biograph</em>) version</h2>
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  27 <p>There are two takes from the Basement tapes sessions. They differ only
  28 on minor points.</p>
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  30 <p>Capo 4th fret (sounding key E major)</p>
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  32 <pre class="verse">
  33 C
  34
  35 C           F                C             F
  36 Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats,
  37 C                 F
  38 Some are building monuments,
  39 C                       F
  40 Others are jotting down notes,
  41 C                F
  42 Ev'rybody's in despair,
  43 C                 F
  44 Ev'ry girl and boy
  45          C                G
  46 But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
  47 F                            C
  48 Ev'rybody's [gonna] jump for joy.
  49      C                 G            C
  50      Come all without, come all within,
  51             C       G                F      C
  52      You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
  53
  54 Now, I likes to do just like the rest, I likes my sugar sweet,
  55 But guarding fumes and making haste, *)
  56 It ain't my cup of meat.
  57 Ev'rybody's just standin' round 'neath the trees,
  58 Feeding pigeons on a limb
  59 But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
  60 them pigeons'll go to him.
  61     Come all without, come all within,
  62     You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
  63
  64 A lamp gate, a gunny dew, I can't recite them all **)
  65 Just tell me where it hurts ***)
  66 And I'll tell you who to call
  67 Nobody can get no sleep,
  68 There's someone on ev'ryone's toes
  69 But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
  70 Ev'rybody's gonna doze.
  71     Come all without, come all within,
  72     You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
  73 </pre>
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  76
  77 <p>*) The <em>Self Portrait</em> version has &ldquo;But jumping queues and
  78 making haste&rdquo;<br />
  79 **) The copyrighted lyrics has: &ldquo;A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can
  80 recite 'em all&rdquo;. <em>Self Portrait</em> has something similar.<br />
  81 ***) The other take has: &ldquo;Just tell me where to put them&rdquo;</p>
  82
  83 <p>The live version is played in A, with the chords A, D and E.
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