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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Mr. Bojangles</h1>
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  16 <p>Jerry Jeff Walker<br />
  17 Released by Columbia on the official bootleg album <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Dylan</a>
  18 (1973)<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  23 <pre class="verse">
  24 C
  25
  26   C            /b               Am            /g
  27 I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
  28 F            G
  29  In worn out shoes
  30     C              /b               Am            /g
  31 The silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
  32 F             G
  33 That old soft shoe
  34 F             C          E       Am   C/g
  35  He'd jump so high, he'd jump so high
  36 D7/f#                   G    C/g  G7
  37 Then he'd lightly touch down
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  41 Am          Em
  42    Mister Bojangles,
  43 Am          Em
  44    Mister Bojangles,
  45 C  /b  Am  /g  F     G
  46 dance
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  50 I met him in a cell in New Orleans
  51 I was down and out
  52 He looked to me to be the eyes of age
  53 As he spoke right out
  54 He talked of life, he talked of life
  55 laughed and slapped his leg a step
  56
  57 He said the name Bojangles then he danced a lick
  58 All across the cell
  59 He grabbed his pants for a better stance
  60 Oh he jumped so high and clicked his heels
  61 He let go laugh, he let go laugh
  62 Shook back his clothes all around
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  64 He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs
  65 Throughout the south
  66 Spoke with tears of fifteen years How his dog 'n him
  67 had just travelled all about
  68 And his dog up and died, he up and died
  69 and after twenty years he still grieves
  70
  71 He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks
  72 For drinks and tips
  73 But most of the time I spend behind these county bars
  74 Cause I drinks a bit
  75 He shook his head, and then he shook his head
  76 I heard someone ask him: &quot;Please&quot;
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