Mr. Tambourine Man (midi)    (Listen to sample)

 

C   F            G                           C                     F

   Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

               C                       F          Dm          G

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

   F            G                          C                     F

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

           C                   F         Dm         G             C

in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

 

                      F                           G                    C                 F

1. Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand,

      C                            F

    vanished from my hand,

                     C                    F         Dm         G

    left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.

              F               G                      C                     F

    My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,

         C                      F

    I have no one to meet,

                   C                       F              Dm          G

    and the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming. + CHORUS

 

       F                   G                      C                    F

2. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

            C                            F

    My senses have been stripped,

             C                          F            C                         F

    my hands can't feel to grip, my toes too numb to step,

              C                F            Dm      G

    wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

            F                G                     C                 F

    I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade,

       C                    F                        C                         F

    Into my own parade. Cast your dancing spell my way,

    C     F         Dm    G

    I - promise  to go under it.

 

   F            G                         C                      F

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

               C                        F         Dm          G

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

   F           G                           C                     F

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

           C                   F        Dm          G             C

in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

                          F                                G

3. Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging

       C                        F                 C                F

    madly across the sun, it's not aimed at anyone,

                     C                    F

    it's just escaping on the run,

                  C                        F        Dm       G

    and but for the sky there are no fences facing.

           F                            G             C                        F

    And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme,

                 C                     F

    to your tambourine in time.

                    C                        F                      C               F

    It's just a ragged clown behind, I wouldn't pay it any mind,

                      C                    F        Em           G

    it's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing. + CHORUS

 

       F                     G                               C                          F

4. Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind.

                     C                     F           C                      F

    down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,

             C                            F            C                    F

    the haunted frightened trees, out  to the windy beach,

           C                        F           Dm    G

    far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

                 F                             G                         C                          F

    Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,

              C                  F                  C                          F

    silhouetted by the sea, circled deep beneath the waves,

                     C                 F     Dm      G

    Let me forget about today until tomorrow. + CHORUS

 

    (Bob Dylan)