Refrain :
F G C F
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
C F G
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
F G C F
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
C F G C
In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Couplet 1 :
F G C F
Though I know the evenings empire has returned into sand
C F
Vanished from my hand
C F 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 G
And the ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming
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Couplet 2 :
F G C F
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
C F C F
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
C F C F
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
G
To be wanderin'
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
G
I promise to go under it
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Couplet 3 :
F G
Though you might hear laughing, spinning
C F
Swinging madly across the sun,
C F C F
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run
C F 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 C F
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
C F C
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
F G
Seeing that he's chasing
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Couplet 4 :
F G C F
Then 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
Ther haunted frightened trees, out to the windy beach
C F 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 by the circus sands
C F C F
With all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves,
C F G
Let me forget about today until tommorow
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