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7 <title>Mr. Tambourine Man
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">Bringing It All Back Home
</a> (
1965),
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../99_greatesthits/index.htm">Greatest Hits
</a> (
1967) and
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../28_biograph/index.htm">Biograph
</a> (
1985), and in live versions on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../21_budokan/index.htm">Budokan
</a> (
1978),
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../39_rah/index.htm">Live
1966</a> (
1998),
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../42_bs5/index.htm">Live
1975</a>
18 (
2002), and
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../43_bs6/index.htm">Live
1964</a> (
2004)
<br /></p>
20 <p>Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
</p>
24 <h2 class=
"songversion"><em>Bringing It All Back Home
</em> version
</h2>
26 <p>Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e')
<br />
36 Asus4 x02230 or
202230
37 Asus2 x02200 or
202200
49 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
51 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
53 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
54 D G A D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
55 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
60 Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
62 Vanished from my hand,
64 Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
66 My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
70 And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.
74 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
75 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
76 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
77 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
81 Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
82 My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
83 My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
85 I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
86 Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
87 I promise to go under it.
91 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
92 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
93 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
94 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
98 Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
99 It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
100 And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
101 And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
102 To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
103 I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
104 Seein' that he's chasing.
107 <pre class=
"refrain">
108 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
109 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
110 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
111 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
115 Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
116 Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
117 The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
118 Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
119 Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
120 Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
121 With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
122 Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
125 <pre class=
"refrain">
126 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
127 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
128 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
129 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
134 <h2 class=
"songversion">Live
1964 and Live
1966 versions
</h2>
136 <p>Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e')
<br />
144 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
146 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
148 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
149 D G Em A D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
150 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
155 <h2 class=
"songversion">Live
1975 version
</h2>
157 <p>The chords aren't exactly the same from verse to verse. The Em is
158 frequently skipped over.
</p>
164 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
166 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
168 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
169 C (Em) Dm F G C Csus4 C
170 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
175 <h2 class=
"songversion">Budokan version (March
1978)
</h2>
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198 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
200 I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
202 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
204 In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
209 <h2 class=
"songversion">1995 Acoustic version, intro
</h2>
211 <p>Based on the version from Brixton,
30 March
1995</p>
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