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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum</h1>
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  15
  16 <p>Words by Bob Dylan. Music taken from Johnnie &amp; Jack's &ldquo;Uncle John's
  17 Bongos&rdquo; (pointed out by Eben Hensby)<br />
  18 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Love And Theft</a> (2001)<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  23 <pre class="verse">
  24 B
  25 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  26
  27 They're throwing knives into the tree
  28
  29 Two big bags of dead man's bones
  30
  31 Got their noses to the grindstone
  32 E
  33 Living in the Land of Nod
  34 B
  35 Trusting their fate to the hands of God
  36 E
  37 They pass by so silently
  38 B
  39 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  40
  41 Well, they're going to the country, they're going to retire
  42 They're taking a streetcar named Desire
  43 Looking at a window with a pecan pie
  44 Lot of things they'd like they would never buy
  45 Neither one want to turn and run
  46 And making a voyage to the sun.
  47 &quot;His master's voice is calling me,&quot;
  48 Said Tweedle Dum to Tweedle Dee.
  49
  50 Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
  51 All that and more and then some
  52 They walk among the stately trees
  53 They know the secrets of the breeze
  54 Tweedle Dum said to Tweedle Dee,
  55 &quot;Your presence is obnoxious to me,
  56 Feel like baby sitting on a woman's knee.&quot;
  57 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  58
  59 Well, the rain beatin' down on a window pane
  60 I got love for you, and it's all in vain
  61 Brains in a pot, they're beginning to boil
  62 They're dripping with garlic and olive oil.
  63 Tweedle Dee is on his hands and his knees,
  64 Saying, &quot;Throw me something, Mister, please!&quot;
  65 &quot;What's good for you is good for me,&quot;
  66 Said Tweedle Dum to Tweedle Dee.
  67
  68 Well, they're living in a happy harmony
  69 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  70 They're one day older and a dollar short
  71 They got a parade permit and a police escort
  72 They're lying low and they're making hay
  73 They seem determined to go all the way
  74 They run a brick and tile company
  75 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  76
  77 Well, a childish dream is a deathless need
  78 And a noble truth is a sacred creed.
  79 My pretty baby, she's looking around.
  80 She's wearing a multi-thousand dollar gown.
  81 Tweedle Dee is a low-down sorry old man.
  82 Tweedle Dum, he'll stab you where you stand.
  83 &quot;I've had too much of your company,&quot;
  84 Said Tweedle Dum to Tweedle Dee.
  85 </pre>
  86
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  88
  89 <p>Some licks:</p>
  90
  91 <p>Intro and recurring B figure:</p>
  92 <pre class="tab">
  93   B
  94   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .        :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  95 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-----------------|
  96 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-----------------|
  97 |-----------------|-----------------|x3|-----------------|-----------------|
  98 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-2h4---3p2-------|
  99 |-2---5---2-------|-----2-5---2-----|  |-2---5---2-------|-------------5---|
 100 |-------------5---|-2-5---------5---|  |-------------5---|-----------------|
 101 </pre>
 102
 103 <p>Transition to E (preceded by the B figure):</p>
 104 <pre class="tab">
 105                                       E
 106 |-----------------|-----------------|-----
 107 |-----------------|-----------------|-----
 108 |-----------------|-----------------|-----
 109 |-4---3---2---0---|---------0---1---|-2---
 110 |-----------------|-2---4-----------|-----
 111 |-----------------|-----------------|-----
 112 </pre>
 113
 114 <p>End of lines 5 and 7:</p>
 115 <pre class="tab">
 116   E
 117   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
 118 |-----7-----7-----|-7-----7-----7---|---7-----7-----7-|-----7-----7-----|----
 119 |-8h9---8h9---8h9-|---8h9---8h9---8-|h9---8h9---8h9---|-8h9---8h9-------|----
 120 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------7b8-|----
 121 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-9--
 122 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----
 123 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----
 124 </pre>
 125
 126 <p>End of line 6:</p>
 127 <pre class="tab">
 128 |-------14------------
 129 |-15b16----  x10  ----
 130 |----------   as  ----
 131 |---------- above ----
 132 |---------------------
 133 |---------------------
 134 </pre>
 135
 136 <hr />
 137
 138 <p>Kenneth Mirandola comments that in live versions (fall 2001) &ldquo;Larry
 139 played in A capoed on the second fret for a sounding key of B
 140 major. Sexton played uncapoed. So I think Larry played the intro
 141 riff....and Sexton played the riff between the verses the end of lines
 142 5 and 7 verses.&rdquo;</p>
 143
 144 <p>Patrik Winquist confirms this, that &ldquo;Larry played the opening riff in
 145 Stockholm with a capo on the 2nd fret&rdquo;. So that would be:</p>
 146
 147 <pre class="tab">
 148   B
 149   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .        :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
 150 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-----------------|
 151 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-----------------|
 152 |-----------------|-----------------|x3|-----------------|-----------------|
 153 |-----------------|-----------------|  |-----------------|-0h2---1p0-------|
 154 |-0---3---0-------|-----0-3---0-----|  |-0---3---0-------|-------------3---|
 155 |-------------3---|-0-3---------3---|  |-------------3---|-----------------|
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