MR. TAMBOURINE MAN        by Bob Dylan
==================        Arr. Chameleons, updated 7/23/98

INTRO:  D  G  A    D  G  A

CHORUS:
G        A               D               G
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
        D                G     Em                 A
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
G        A               D               G
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
       D             G       Em        A         D  G  D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you

         G                  A          D             G
Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand
D                G
Vanished from my hand
        D               G         Em        A
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
   G          A             D             G
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
  D              G
I have no one to meet
        D             G            Em                A
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming ...CHORUS

G            A              D              G
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
   D                G              D                   G
My senses have been stripped.   My hands can't feel to grip
   D                G
My toes too numb to step
     D           G         Em    A
Wait only for my bootheels to be wandering
    G           A             D            G
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
  D           G
Into my own parade
          D                G      Em            A
Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it...CHORUS


           G                    A                  D                G
Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun
         D           G                 D             G
It's not aimed at anyone.  It's just escaping on the run
        D                 G      Em     A
And but for the sky there are no fences facing
    G                 A         D                 G
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
        D             G
To your tambourine in time
            D              G
It's just a ragged clown behind
           D          G
I wouldn't pay it any mind
            D             G      Em                A
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing ...CHORUS

G            A                   D                 G
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
         D              G          D               G
Down the foggy ruins of time.  Far past the frozen leaves
    D                  G           D            G
The haunted frightened trees.  Out to the windy beach
    D                G        Em    A
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
       G                 A                D               G
Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
      D            G
Silhouetted by the sea
        D             G
Circled by the circus sands
         D          G           D                G
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
          D           G     Em           A
Let me forget about today until tomorrow ...CHORUS (a cappella)

              D  G  A    D  G  A    D
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