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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Black Diamond Bay</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and Music Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Desire</a> (1976)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>&ldquo;C/b&rdquo; (or just /b when following a C) is shorthand for x20010 in the
  21 descending bass figure:</p>
  22 <pre class="chords">
  23 C   x<strong>3</strong>2010
  24 C/b x<strong>2</strong>0010
  25 Am  x<strong>0</strong>2210
  26 G   <strong>3</strong>20003
  27 </pre>
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  29 <p>It is not obvious which chord ends the lines 7 and 9. I've chosen the
  30 C/b, since it matches both the <em>b</em> of the vocal and the <em>c</em>
  31 of the violin, but both a plain C, G or even D7 are playable.</p>
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  36 Em
  37 Up on the white veranda
  38 C                         G
  39 She wears a necktie and a Panama hat.
  40 Em
  41 Her passport shows a face
  42     C
  43 From another time and place
  44           G
  45 She looks nothin' like that.
  46 Bm                          C D    C
  47 And all the remnants of her recent past
  48 C/b G
  49 Are scattered in the wild wind.
  50     Bm
  51 She walks across the marble floor
  52         C     D        C        C/b
  53 Where a voice from the gambling room
  54    G
  55 is callin' her to come on in.
  56     Bm                      Am
  57 She smiles, walks the other way
  58        C    /b   Am    G       D(/f#)      C
  59 As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
  60      C     /b Am   G
  61 From Black Diamond Bay.
  62
  63 As the mornin' light breaks open, the Greek comes down
  64 And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write.
  65 &quot;Pardon, monsieur,&quot; the desk clerk says,
  66 Carefully removes his fez,
  67 &quot;Am I hearin' you right?&quot;
  68 And as the yellow fog is liftin'
  69 The Greek is quickly headin' for the second floor.
  70 She passes him on the spiral staircase
  71 Thinkin' he's the Soviet Ambassador,
  72 She starts to speak, but he walks away
  73 As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway
  74 On Black Diamond Bay.
  75
  76 A soldier sits beneath the fan
  77 Doin' business with a tiny man who sells him a ring.
  78 Lightning strikes, the lights blow out.
  79 The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout,
  80 &quot;Can you see anything?&quot;
  81 Then the Greek appears on the second floor
  82 In his bare feet with a rope around his neck,
  83 While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle,
  84 Says, &quot;Open up another deck.&quot;
  85 But the dealer says, &quot;Attendez-vous, s'il vous plait,&rdquo;
  86 As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
  87 From Black Diamond Bay.
  88
  89 The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
  90 As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough.
  91 He tried to grab the woman's hand,
  92 Said, &quot;Here's a ring, it cost a grand.&quot;
  93 She said, &quot;That ain't enough.&quot;
  94 Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
  95 While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb.
  96 She passed the door that the Greek had locked,
  97 Where a handwritten sign read, &quot;Do Not Disturb.&quot;
  98 She knocked upon it anyway
  99 As the sun went down and the music did play
 100 On Black Diamond Bay.
 101
 102 &quot;I've got to talk to someone quick!&quot;
 103 But the Greek said, &quot;Go away,&quot; and he kicked the chair to the floor.
 104 He hung there from the chandelier.
 105 She cried, &quot;Help, there's danger near
 106 Please open up the door!&quot;
 107 Then the volcano erupted
 108 And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above.
 109 The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner
 110 Thinking of forbidden love.
 111 But the desk clerk said, &quot;It happens every day,&quot;
 112 As the stars fell down and the fields burned away
 113 On Black Diamond Bay.
 114
 115 As the island slowly sank
 116 The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room.
 117 The dealer said, &quot;It's too late now.
 118 You can take your money, but I don't know how
 119 You'll spend it in the tomb.&quot;
 120 The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
 121 As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew,
 122 While she's out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her,
 123 &quot;My darling, je vous aime beaucoup.&quot;
 124 She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
 125 As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
 126 From Black Diamond Bay.
 127
 128 I was sittin' home alone one night in L.A.,
 129 Watchin' old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news.
 130 It seems there was an earthquake that
 131 Left nothin' but a Panama hat
 132 And a pair of old Greek shoes.
 133 Didn't seem like much was happenin',
 134 So I turned it off and went to grab another beer.
 135 Seems like every time you turn around
 136 There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
 137 And there's really nothin' anyone can say
 138 And I never did plan to go anyway
 139 To Black Diamond Bay.
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