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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1888476,"song":"Desolation Row","artist":"Bob Dylan","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1888476-desolation-row-chords-by-bob-dylan/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1888476?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":90,"content":"Chords by: Sliver24\r\n\r\n\"Desolation Row\" by Bob Dylan\r\n\r\nCAPO: II\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey're selling postcards of the hanging[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey're painting the passports brown[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe beauty parlour is filled with sailors[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\n The circus is in town[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nHere comes the blind commissioner[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey've got him in a trance[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOne hand is tied to the tightrope walker[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\n The other is in his pants[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the riot squad, they're restless[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey need somewhere to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAs lady and I look out tonight from[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nCinderella, she seems so easy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt takes one to know one she smiles[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd puts her hands in her back pocket[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Bette Davis style[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen in comes Romeo, he's moaning[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou belong to me I believe[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd someone says you're in the wrong place my friend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\n You'd better leave[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the only sound that's left[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAfter the ambulances go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIs Cinderella sweeping up on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow the moon is almost hidden[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe stars are beginning to hide[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe fortune telling lady[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHas even taken all her things inside[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll except for Cain and Abel[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the Hunchback of Notre-Dame[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nEverybody is making love[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOr else expecting rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the Good Samaritan, he's dressing[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe's gettin' ready for the show[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe's going to the carnival tonight on [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOphelia, she's 'neath the window[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch] \r\nFor her I feel so afraid[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn her twenty-second birthday[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe already is an old maid[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo her, death is quite romantic[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe wears an iron vest[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHer profession's her religion[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHer sin is her lifelessness[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though her eyes are fixed upon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNoah's great rainbow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe spends her time peeking into[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDesolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nEinstein disguised as Robin Hood[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith his memories in a trunk[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nPassed this way an hour ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith his friend a jealous monk[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAh he looked so immaculately frightful[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs he bummed a cigarette[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen went off sniffing drain pipes[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd reciting the alphabet[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou would not think to look at him[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he was famous long ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor playing the electric violin on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDesolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDoctor Filth, he keeps his world[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nInside of a leather cup[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut all his sexless patients[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey are trying to blow it up[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow his nurse, some local loser[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe's in charge of the cyanide hole[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she also keeps the cards that read[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHave mercy on his soul[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey all play on the penny whistle[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou can hear them blow[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIf you lean your head out far enough from[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAcross the street they've nailed the curtains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey're gettin' ready for the feast[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe Phantom of the Opera[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn a perfect image of a priest[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey are spoon feeding Casanova[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo get him to feel more assured[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen they'll kill him with self-confidence[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAfter poisoning him with words[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGet outta here if you don't know[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCasanova is just being punished for going [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAt midnight all the agents[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the superhuman crew[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCome out and round up everyone[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat knows more than they do[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen they bring them to the factory[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the heart attack machine[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIs strapped across their shoulders[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd then the kerosene[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs brought down from the castles[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy insurance men who go[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCheck to see that nobody is escaping to[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDesolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPraise be to Nero's Neptune[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe Titanic sails at dawn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nEverybody is shouting[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhich side are you on[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFighting in the captain's tower[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile calypso singers laugh at them[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd fishermen hold flowers[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBetween the windows of the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere lovely mermaids flow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd nobody has to think too much about[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n(*no lyrics - harmonica solo - optional*)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 10]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYes I received your letter yesterday[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAbout the time the door knob broke[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen you asked me how I was doing[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWas that some kind of joke[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll these people that you mention[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYes I know them, they're quite lame[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI had to rearrange their faces[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd give them all another name[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nRight now I can't read too good[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDon't send me no more letters, no[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNot unless you mail them from[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDesolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n/Sliver24","plain_text":"Chords by: Sliver24\n\n\"Desolation Row\" by Bob Dylan\n\nCAPO: II\n\n[Intro]\nD D D D\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 9]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n[Verse 10]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n/Sliver24","chords":["D","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}