{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":626471,"song":"Highway 61 Revisited","artist":"Bob Dylan","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/626471-highway-61-revisited-chords-by-bob-dylan/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/626471?type=chord","rating":4.77524,"votes":54,"content":"Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited\r\n\r\n1. Like A Rolling Stone\r\n2. Tombstone Blues\r\n3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry\r\n4. From A Buick 6\r\n5. Ballad Of A Thin Man\r\n6. Queen Jane Approximately\r\n7. Highway 61 Revisited\r\n8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues\r\n9. Desolation Row\r\n\r\n*All Words And Music by Bob Dylan\r\n\r\n\r\nLike A Rolling Stone\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOnce upon a time you dressed so fine[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nPeople'd call, say, \"Beware doll, you're bound to fall\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou thought they were all a-kiddin' you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n You used to laugh about[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n Everybody that was hangin' out[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]Dm[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n Now you don't talk so loud[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]Dm[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n Now you don't seem so proud[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAbout having to be scrounging for your next meal.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHow does it feel[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHow does it feel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo be without a home[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike a complete unknown[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike a rolling stone?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nYou've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely\r\nBut you know you only used to get juiced in it\r\nAnd nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street\r\nAnd now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it\r\nYou said you'd never compromise\r\nWith the mystery tramp, but now you realize\r\nHe's not selling any alibis\r\nAs you stare into the vacuum of his eyes\r\nAnd say do you want to make a deal?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n(same as the first one)\r\n\r\nHow does it feel\r\nHow does it feel\r\nTo be on your own\r\nWith no direction home\r\nLike a complete unknown\r\nLike a rolling stone?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nYou never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns\r\nWhen they all come down and did tricks for you\r\nYou never understood that it ain't no good\r\nYou shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you\r\nYou used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat\r\nWho carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat\r\nAin't it hard when you discover that\r\nHe really wasn't where it's at\r\nAfter he took from you everything he could steal.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n(same as the first one)\r\n\r\nHow does it feel\r\nHow does it feel\r\nTo be on your own\r\nWith no direction home\r\nLike a complete unknown\r\nLike a rolling stone?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nPrincess on the steeple and all the pretty people\r\nThey're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made\r\nExchanging all precious gifts \r\nBut you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe\r\nYou used to be so amused\r\nAt Napoleon in rags and the language that he used\r\nGo to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse\r\nWhen you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose\r\nYou're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n(same as the first one)\r\n\r\nHow does it feel\r\nHow does it feel\r\nTo be on your own\r\nWith no direction home\r\nLike a complete unknown\r\nLike a rolling stone?\r\n\r\n\r\nTombstone Blues\r\n\r\nCapo: 2nd fret\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                          \r\nThe sweet pretty things are in bed now of course[/tab]\r\n                               \r\nThe city fathers they're trying to endorse\r\n                   \r\nThe reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse\r\n[tab]                    [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut the town has no need to be nervous[/tab]\r\n\r\n(same chords progression)\r\n\r\nThe ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits\r\nTo Jezebel the nun she violently knits\r\nA bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits\r\nAt the head of the chamber of commerce\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nMama's in the factory[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe ain't got no shoes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] \r\nDaddy's in the alley[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's lookin' for food [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm in the kitchen[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWith the tombstone blues[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nThe hysterical bride in the penny arcade\r\nScreaming she moans, \"I've just been made\"\r\nThen sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade\r\nSays, \"My advice is to not let the boys in\"\r\n\r\nNow the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside\r\nHe walks with a swagger and he says to the bride\r\n\"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride\r\nYou will not die, it's not poison\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n(same as chorus 1)\r\n\r\nMama's in the factory\r\nShe ain't got no shoes\r\nDaddy's in the alley\r\nHe's lookin' for food\r\nI'm in the kitchen\r\nWith the tombstone blues\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, John the Baptist after torturing a thief\r\nLooks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief\r\nSaying, \"Tell me great hero, but please make it brief\r\nIs there a hole for me to get sick in?\"\r\n\r\nThe Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly\r\nSaying, \"Death to all those who would whimper and cry\"\r\nAnd dropping a bar bell he points to the sky\r\nSaying, \"The sun's not yellow it's chicken\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n(same as chorus 1)\r\n\r\nMama's in the factory\r\nShe ain't got no shoes\r\nDaddy's in the alley\r\nHe's lookin' for food\r\nI'm in the kitchen\r\nWith the tombstone blues\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nThe king of the Philistines his soldiers to save\r\nPuts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves\r\nPuts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves\r\nThen sends them out to the jungle\r\n\r\nGypsy Davey with a blowtorch he burns out their camps\r\nWith his faithful slave Pedro behind him he tramps\r\nWith a fantastic collection of stamps\r\nTo win friends and influence his uncle\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 4]\r\n(same as chorus 1)\r\n\r\nMama's in the factory\r\nShe ain't got no shoes\r\nDaddy's in the alley\r\nHe's lookin' for food\r\nI'm in trouble\r\nWith the tombstone blues\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nThe geometry of innocent flesh on the bone\r\nCauses Galileo's math book to get thrown\r\nAt Delilah who's sitting worthlessly alone\r\nBut the tears on her cheeks are from laughter\r\n\r\nNow I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill\r\nI would set him in chains at the top of the hill\r\nThen send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille\r\nHe could die happily ever after\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 5]\r\n(same as chorus 1)\r\n\r\nMama's in the factory\r\nShe ain't got no shoes\r\nDaddy's in the alley\r\nHe's lookin' for food\r\nI'm in the kitchen\r\nWith the tombstone blues\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWhere Ma Raney and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll\r\nTuba players now rehearse around the flagpole\r\nAnd the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul\r\nTo the old folks home and the college\r\n\r\nNow I wish I could write you a melody so plain\r\nThat could hold you dear lady from going insane\r\nThat could ease you and cool you and cease the pain\r\nOf your useless and pointless knowledge\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 6]\r\n(same as chorus 1)\r\n\r\nMama's in the factory\r\nShe ain't got no shoes\r\nDaddy's in the alley\r\nHe's lookin' for the fuse\r\nI'm in the streets\r\nWith the tombstone blues\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry       \r\n\r\n\r\nTo play the song correctly you have to play the following pattern\r\nthrougout most of the song (shuffle style!)\r\n\r\n[tab]e|--3--3--3--3--|\r\nB|--0--0--1--0--|\r\nG|--0--0--0--0--|\r\nD|--0--0--2--0--|\r\nA|--2--2--x--2--|\r\nE|--3--3--3--3--|\r\n    .  .  .  . [/tab]\r\n    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n---> Repeat this \"Riff\" throughout the verses with some other chords\r\n     (tabbed below) and with a capo on the 1st fret.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nWell, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nCan't buy a  thrill.\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nWell, I've been up all night,\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nLeanin' on the window sill.\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWell, if I die[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]   \r\nOn top of the hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllll[/tab]\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nAnd if I don't make it,\r\n\"Riff\"\r\nYou know my baby  will.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nDon't the moon look good, mama,\r\nShinin' through the trees?\r\nDon't the brakeman look good, mama,\r\nFlagging down the Double E?\r\nDon't the sun look good\r\nGoin' down over the sea?\r\nDon't my gal look fine\r\nWhen she's comin' after me?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow the wintertime is coming,\r\nThe windows are filled with frost.\r\nI went to tell everybody,\r\nBut I could not get across.\r\nWell, I wanna be your lover, baby,\r\nI don't wanna be your boss.\r\nDon't say I never warned you\r\nWhen your train gets lost.\r\n\r\nFrom A Buick 6\r\n[ch]C[/ch]\r\n           \r\nI got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid\r\n\r\nBut my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                                                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, when the pipeline gets broken and I'm lost on the river bridge\r\nI'm cracked up on the highway and on the water's edge\r\nShe comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread\r\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, she don't make me nervous, she don't talk too much\r\nShe walks like Bo Diddley and she don't need no crutch\r\nShe keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead\r\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead\r\nI need a dump truck mama to unload my head\r\nShe brings me everything and more, and just like I said\r\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBallad Of A Thin Man\r\n\r\n\r\nPlayed very slowly (q~65) and with a Capo on the 2nd fret. The timing of the\r\nintro tab seems to be a bit awkward but it's right. You can try it out if you\r\nhave Guitar Pro.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n\r\n[tab]                  |-3-|  |-3-|[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]H[/ch]  +[ch]E[/ch].  S. [ch]E[/ch]+S.   Q  [ch]E[/ch]  Q  [ch]E[/ch]  S. S. S. [ch]E[/ch]+S.\r\ne|---------------||-0--0--1--1--0--0---------|\r\nB|---------------||-1--1--3--3--1--1---------|\r\nG|---------------||-2--2--2--2--2--2---------|  (repeat)\r\nD|---------------||-2--2--0--0--2--2---------|\r\nA|-----------0---||-0--0--------0--0-----0---|\r\nE|--------0------||-------------------0------|[/tab]\r\n         ([ch]Am[/ch])     [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]    ([ch]Am[/ch])\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou walk into the room[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G#[/ch]\r\nWith your pencil in your hand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou see somebody naked[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nAnd you say, \"Who is that man?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou try so hard[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut you don't understand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nJust what you will say[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen you get home[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]            \r\nBecause something is happening here[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut you don't know what it is[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]       \"intro\"\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?[/tab]\r\n\r\n(same chords progression)\r\n\r\nYou raise up your head                    \r\nAnd you ask, \"Is this where it is?\"                \r\nAnd somebody points to you and says\r\n\"It's his\"\r\nAnd you say, \"What's mine?\"\r\nAnd somebody else says, \"Where what is?\"\r\nAnd you say, \"Oh my God\r\nAm I here all alone?\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n(verse chords)\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is \r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nYou hand in your ticket\r\nAnd you go watch the geek\r\nWho immediately walks up to you\r\nWhen he hears you speak\r\nAnd says, \"How does it feel\r\nTo be such a freak?\"\r\nAnd you say, \"Impossible\"\r\nAs he hands you a bone\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou have many contacts[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAmong the lumberjacks[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo get you facts[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen someone attacks your imagination[/tab]\r\n\r\nBut nobody has any respect\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnyway they already expect you[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo just give a check[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nTo tax-deductible charity organizations[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nYou've been with the professors\r\nAnd they've all liked your looks\r\nWith great lawyers you have                  \r\nDiscussed lepers and crooks\r\nYou've been through all of\r\nF. Scott Fitzgerald's books\r\nYou're very well read\r\nIt's well known\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, the sword swallower, he comes up to you\r\nAnd then he kneels\r\nHe crosses himself\r\nAnd then he clicks his high heels\r\nAnd without further notice\r\nHe asks you how it feels\r\nAnd he says, \"Here is your throat back\r\nThanks for the loan\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow you see this one-eyed midget\r\nShouting the word \"NOW\"\r\nAnd you say, \"For what reason?\"\r\nAnd he says, \"How?\"\r\nAnd you say, \"What does this mean?\"\r\nAnd he screams back, \"You're a cow\r\nGive me some milk\r\nOr else go home\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell, you walk into the room\r\nLike a camel and then you frown\r\nYou put your eyes in your pocket\r\nAnd your nose on the ground\r\nThere ought to be a law\r\nAgainst you comin' around\r\nYou should be made\r\nTo wear earphones\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\nBecause something is happening here\r\nBut you don't know what it is\r\nDo you, Mister Jones?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nQueen Jane Approximately\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen your mother sends back all your invitations[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd your father to your sister he explains[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]        /[ch]C[/ch]   /[ch]B[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat you're tired of yourself and all of your creations[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you\r\nAnd the smell of their roses does not remain\r\nAnd all of your children start to resent you\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow when all the clowns that you have commissioned\r\nHave died in battle or in vain\r\nAnd you're sick of all this repetition\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWhen all of your advisers heave their plastic\r\nAt your feet to convince you of your pain\r\nTrying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to\r\nAll lay down their bandanas and complain\r\nAnd you want somebody you don't have to speak to\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHighway 61 Revisited\r\n\r\nCapo: 1st fret\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOh God said to Abraham, \"Kill me a son\"[/tab]\r\nAbe says, \"Man, you must be puttin' me on\"\r\nGod say, \"No.\" Abe say, \"What?\"\r\nGod say, \"You can do what you want Abe, but\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe next time you see me comin' you better run\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell Abe says, \"Where do you want this killin' done?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nGod says, \"Out on Highway 61.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose\r\nWelfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes\r\nHe asked poor Howard where can I go\r\nHoward said there's only one place I know\r\nSam said tell me quick man I got to run\r\n0l' Howard just pointed with his gun\r\nAnd said that way down on Highway 61.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nWell Mack the Finger said to Louie the King\r\nI got forty red white and blue shoe strings\r\nAnd a thousand telephones that don't ring\r\nDo you know where I can get rid of these things\r\nAnd Louie the King said let me think for a minute son\r\nAnd he said yes I think it can be easily done\r\nJust take everything down to Highway 61.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow the fifth daughter on the twelfth night\r\nTold the first father that things weren't right\r\nMy complexion she said is much too white\r\nHe said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right\r\nLet me tell the second mother this has been done\r\nBut the second mother was with the seventh son\r\nAnd they were both out on Highway 61.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow the rovin' gambler he was very bored\r\nHe was tryin' to create a next world war\r\nHe found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor\r\nHe said I never engaged in this kind of thing before\r\nBut yes I think it can be very easily done\r\nWe'll just put some bleachers out in the sun\r\nAnd have it on Highway 61.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJust Like Tom Thumb's Blues\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDon't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey got some hungry women there and they really make a mess outa you[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow if you see Saint Annie please tell her thanks a lot\r\nI cannot move my fingers are all in a knot\r\nI don't have the strength to get up and take another shot\r\nAnd my best friend, my doctor won't even say what it is I've got\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nSweet Melinda the peasants call her the goddess of gloom\r\nShe speaks good English and she invites you up into her room\r\nAnd you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon\r\nAnd she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nUp on Housing Project Hill it's either fortune or fame\r\nYou must pick up one or the other though neither of them are to be what they claim\r\nIf you're lookin' to get silly you better go back to from where you came\r\nBecause the cops don't need you ynd man they expect the same\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow all the authorities they just stand around and boast\r\nHow they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post\r\nAnd picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast\r\nWho looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nI started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff\r\nEverybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough\r\nBut the joke was on me there was nobody even there to call my bluff\r\nI'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough\r\n\r\n\r\nDesolation Row\r\n\r\nYou can play it in dropped C-tuning (Tune E-Bass string down to C)\r\nIn dropped C tuning the chords are played like this:\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]:     032010  \r\n[ch]Csus4[/ch]: 033010  \r\n[ch]F/E[/ch]:   003211  \r\n[ch]G/F#[/ch]:  220003\r\n\r\n\r\nCapo: 4th fret\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]        \r\nThey're selling postcards of the hanging[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey're painting the passports brown[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]     \r\nThe beauty parlor is filled with sailors[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe circus is in town[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]        \r\nHere comes the blind commissioner[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey've got him in a trance[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]     \r\nOne hand is tied to the tight-rope walker[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe other is in his pants[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the riot squad they're restless[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey need somewhere to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs Lady and I look out tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Csus4[/ch]\r\nFrom Desolation Row[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nCinderella, she seems so easy\r\n\"It takes one to know one,\" she smiles\r\nAnd puts her hands in her back pockets\r\nBette Davis style\r\nAnd in comes Romeo, he's moaning\r\n\"You Belong to Me I Believe\"\r\nAnd someone says,\" You're in the wrong place, my friend\r\nYou better leave\"\r\nAnd the only sound that's left\r\nAfter the ambulances go\r\nIs Cinderella sweeping up\r\nOn Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow the moon is almost hidden\r\nThe stars are beginning to hide\r\nThe fortunetelling lady\r\nHas even taken all her things inside\r\nAll except for Cain and Abel\r\nAnd the hunchback of Notre Dame\r\nEverybody is making love\r\nOr else expecting rain\r\nAnd the Good Samaritan, he's dressing\r\nHe's getting ready for the show\r\nHe's going to the carnival tonight\r\nOn Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow Ophelia, she's 'neath the window\r\nFor her I feel so afraid\r\nOn her twenty-second birthday\r\nShe already is an old maid\r\nTo her, death is quite romantic\r\nShe wears an iron vest\r\nHer profession's her religion\r\nHer sin is her lifelessness\r\nAnd though her eyes are fixed upon\r\nNoah's great rainbow\r\nShe spends her time peeking\r\nInto Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nEinstein, disguised as Robin Hood\r\nWith his memories in a trunk\r\nPassed this way an hour ago\r\nWith his friend, a jealous monk\r\nHe looked so immaculately frightful\r\nAs he bummed a cigarette\r\nThen he went off sniffing drainpipes\r\nAnd reciting the alphabet\r\nNow you would not think to look at him\r\nBut he was famous long ago\r\nFor playing the electric violin\r\nOn Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nDr. Filth, he keeps his world\r\nInside of a leather cup\r\nBut all his sexless patients\r\nThey're trying to blow it up\r\nNow his nurse, some local loser\r\nShe's in charge of the cyanide hole\r\nAnd she also keeps the cards that read\r\n\"Have Mercy on His Soul\"\r\nThey all play on penny whistles\r\nYou can hear them blow\r\nIf you lean your head out far enough\r\nFrom Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nAcross the street they've nailed the curtains\r\nThey're getting ready for the feast\r\nThe Phantom of the Opera\r\nA perfect image of a priest\r\nThey're spoonfeeding Casanova\r\nTo get him to feel more assured\r\nThen they'll kill him with self-confidence\r\nAfter poisoning him with words\r\nAnd the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls\r\n\"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know\r\nCasanova is just being punished for going\r\nTo Desolation Row\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nNow at midnight all the agents\r\nAnd the superhuman crew\r\nCome out and round up everyone\r\nThat knows more than they do\r\nThen they bring them to the factory\r\nWhere the heart-attack machine\r\nIs strapped across their shoulders\r\nAnd then the kerosene\r\nIs brought down from the castles\r\nBy insurance men who go\r\nCheck to see that nobody is escaping\r\nTo Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nPraise be to Nero's Neptune\r\nThe Titanic sails at dawn\r\nAnd everybody's shouting\r\n\"Which Side Are You On?\"\r\nAnd Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot\r\nFighting in the captain's tower\r\nWhile calypso singers laugh at them\r\nAnd fishermen hold flowers\r\nBetween the windows of the sea\r\nWhere lovely mermaids flow\r\nAnd nobody has to think too much\r\nAbout Desolation Row\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 10]\r\n(same as verse 1)\r\n\r\nYes, I received your letter yesterday\r\n(About the time the door knob broke)\r\nWhen you asked how I was doing\r\nWas that some kind of joke?\r\nAll these people that you mention\r\nYes, I know them, they're quite lame\r\nI had to rearrange their faces\r\nAnd give them all another name\r\nRight now I can't read too good\r\nDon't send me no more letters no\r\nNot unless you mail them\r\nFrom Desolation Row#","plain_text":"Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited\n\n1. Like A Rolling Stone\n2. Tombstone Blues\n3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry\n4. From A Buick 6\n5. Ballad Of A Thin Man\n6. Queen Jane Approximately\n7. Highway 61 Revisited\n8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues\n9. Desolation Row\n\n*All Words And Music by Bob Dylan\n\n\nLike A Rolling Stone\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nYou've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely\nBut you know you only used to get juiced in it\nAnd nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street\nAnd now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it\nYou said you'd never compromise\nWith the mystery tramp, but now you realize\nHe's not selling any alibis\nAs you stare into the vacuum of his eyes\nAnd say do you want to make a deal?\n\n\n[Chorus]\n(same as the first one)\n\nHow does it feel\nHow does it feel\nTo be on your own\nWith no direction home\nLike a complete unknown\nLike a rolling stone?\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nYou never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns\nWhen they all come down and did tricks for you\nYou never understood that it ain't no good\nYou shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you\nYou used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat\nWho carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat\nAin't it hard when you discover that\nHe really wasn't where it's at\nAfter he took from you everything he could steal.\n\n\n[Chorus]\n(same as the first one)\n\nHow does it feel\nHow does it feel\nTo be on your own\nWith no direction home\nLike a complete unknown\nLike a rolling stone?\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nPrincess on the steeple and all the pretty people\nThey're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made\nExchanging all precious gifts \nBut you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe\nYou used to be so amused\nAt Napoleon in rags and the language that he used\nGo to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse\nWhen you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose\nYou're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.\n\n\n[Chorus]\n(same as the first one)\n\nHow does it feel\nHow does it feel\nTo be on your own\nWith no direction home\nLike a complete unknown\nLike a rolling stone?\n\n\nTombstone Blues\n\nCapo: 2nd fret\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n                               \nThe city fathers they're trying to endorse\n                   \nThe reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse\n\n\n(same chords progression)\n\nThe ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits\nTo Jezebel the nun she violently knits\nA bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits\nAt the head of the chamber of commerce\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nThe hysterical bride in the penny arcade\nScreaming she moans, \"I've just been made\"\nThen sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade\nSays, \"My advice is to not let the boys in\"\n\nNow the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside\nHe walks with a swagger and he says to the bride\n\"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride\nYou will not die, it's not poison\"\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n(same as chorus 1)\n\nMama's in the factory\nShe ain't got no shoes\nDaddy's in the alley\nHe's lookin' for food\nI'm in the kitchen\nWith the tombstone blues\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, John the Baptist after torturing a thief\nLooks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief\nSaying, \"Tell me great hero, but please make it brief\nIs there a hole for me to get sick in?\"\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly\nSaying, \"Death to all those who would whimper and cry\"\nAnd dropping a bar bell he points to the sky\nSaying, \"The sun's not yellow it's chicken\"\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n(same as chorus 1)\n\nMama's in the factory\nShe ain't got no shoes\nDaddy's in the alley\nHe's lookin' for food\nI'm in the kitchen\nWith the tombstone blues\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nThe king of the Philistines his soldiers to save\nPuts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves\nPuts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves\nThen sends them out to the jungle\n\nGypsy Davey with a blowtorch he burns out their camps\nWith his faithful slave Pedro behind him he tramps\nWith a fantastic collection of stamps\nTo win friends and influence his uncle\n\n\n[Chorus 4]\n(same as chorus 1)\n\nMama's in the factory\nShe ain't got no shoes\nDaddy's in the alley\nHe's lookin' for food\nI'm in trouble\nWith the tombstone blues\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nThe geometry of innocent flesh on the bone\nCauses Galileo's math book to get thrown\nAt Delilah who's sitting worthlessly alone\nBut the tears on her cheeks are from laughter\n\nNow I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill\nI would set him in chains at the top of the hill\nThen send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille\nHe could die happily ever after\n\n\n[Chorus 5]\n(same as chorus 1)\n\nMama's in the factory\nShe ain't got no shoes\nDaddy's in the alley\nHe's lookin' for food\nI'm in the kitchen\nWith the tombstone blues\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWhere Ma Raney and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll\nTuba players now rehearse around the flagpole\nAnd the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul\nTo the old folks home and the college\n\nNow I wish I could write you a melody so plain\nThat could hold you dear lady from going insane\nThat could ease you and cool you and cease the pain\nOf your useless and pointless knowledge\n\n\n[Chorus 6]\n(same as chorus 1)\n\nMama's in the factory\nShe ain't got no shoes\nDaddy's in the alley\nHe's lookin' for the fuse\nI'm in the streets\nWith the tombstone blues\n\n\n\nIt Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry       \n\n\nTo play the song correctly you have to play the following pattern\nthrougout most of the song (shuffle style!)\n\n\n    G  G  C  G\n\n---> Repeat this \"Riff\" throughout the verses with some other chords\n     (tabbed below) and with a capo on the 1st fret.\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\"Riff\"\nWell, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,\n\"Riff\"\nCan't buy a  thrill.\n\"Riff\"\nWell, I've been up all night,\n\"Riff\"\nLeanin' on the window sill.\n\n\n\"Riff\"\nAnd if I don't make it,\n\"Riff\"\nYou know my baby  will.\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nDon't the moon look good, mama,\nShinin' through the trees?\nDon't the brakeman look good, mama,\nFlagging down the Double E?\nDon't the sun look good\nGoin' down over the sea?\nDon't my gal look fine\nWhen she's comin' after me?\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow the wintertime is coming,\nThe windows are filled with frost.\nI went to tell everybody,\nBut I could not get across.\nWell, I wanna be your lover, baby,\nI don't wanna be your boss.\nDon't say I never warned you\nWhen your train gets lost.\n\nFrom A Buick 6\nC\n           \nI got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid\n\nBut my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, when the pipeline gets broken and I'm lost on the river bridge\nI'm cracked up on the highway and on the water's edge\nShe comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, she don't make me nervous, she don't talk too much\nShe walks like Bo Diddley and she don't need no crutch\nShe keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead\nI need a dump truck mama to unload my head\nShe brings me everything and more, and just like I said\nWell, if I go down dyin', you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.\n\n\n\nBallad Of A Thin Man\n\n\nPlayed very slowly (q~65) and with a Capo on the 2nd fret. The timing of the\nintro tab seems to be a bit awkward but it's right. You can try it out if you\nhave Guitar Pro.\n\n\n[Intro]\n\n\n\n         (Am)     Am    Dm    Am    (Am)\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(same chords progression)\n\nYou raise up your head                    \nAnd you ask, \"Is this where it is?\"                \nAnd somebody points to you and says\n\"It's his\"\nAnd you say, \"What's mine?\"\nAnd somebody else says, \"Where what is?\"\nAnd you say, \"Oh my God\nAm I here all alone?\"\n\n\n[Chorus]\n(verse chords)\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is \nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nYou hand in your ticket\nAnd you go watch the geek\nWho immediately walks up to you\nWhen he hears you speak\nAnd says, \"How does it feel\nTo be such a freak?\"\nAnd you say, \"Impossible\"\nAs he hands you a bone\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is\nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut nobody has any respect\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nYou've been with the professors\nAnd they've all liked your looks\nWith great lawyers you have                  \nDiscussed lepers and crooks\nYou've been through all of\nF. Scott Fitzgerald's books\nYou're very well read\nIt's well known\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is\nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, the sword swallower, he comes up to you\nAnd then he kneels\nHe crosses himself\nAnd then he clicks his high heels\nAnd without further notice\nHe asks you how it feels\nAnd he says, \"Here is your throat back\nThanks for the loan\"\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is\nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow you see this one-eyed midget\nShouting the word \"NOW\"\nAnd you say, \"For what reason?\"\nAnd he says, \"How?\"\nAnd you say, \"What does this mean?\"\nAnd he screams back, \"You're a cow\nGive me some milk\nOr else go home\"\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is\nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell, you walk into the room\nLike a camel and then you frown\nYou put your eyes in your pocket\nAnd your nose on the ground\nThere ought to be a law\nAgainst you comin' around\nYou should be made\nTo wear earphones\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBecause something is happening here\nBut you don't know what it is\nDo you, Mister Jones?\n\n\n\nQueen Jane Approximately\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you\nAnd the smell of their roses does not remain\nAnd all of your children start to resent you\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow when all the clowns that you have commissioned\nHave died in battle or in vain\nAnd you're sick of all this repetition\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWhen all of your advisers heave their plastic\nAt your feet to convince you of your pain\nTrying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to\nAll lay down their bandanas and complain\nAnd you want somebody you don't have to speak to\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\nWon't you come see me, Queen Jane?\n\n\n\nHighway 61 Revisited\n\nCapo: 1st fret\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\nAbe says, \"Man, you must be puttin' me on\"\nGod say, \"No.\" Abe say, \"What?\"\nGod say, \"You can do what you want Abe, but\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose\nWelfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes\nHe asked poor Howard where can I go\nHoward said there's only one place I know\nSam said tell me quick man I got to run\n0l' Howard just pointed with his gun\nAnd said that way down on Highway 61.\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nWell Mack the Finger said to Louie the King\nI got forty red white and blue shoe strings\nAnd a thousand telephones that don't ring\nDo you know where I can get rid of these things\nAnd Louie the King said let me think for a minute son\nAnd he said yes I think it can be easily done\nJust take everything down to Highway 61.\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow the fifth daughter on the twelfth night\nTold the first father that things weren't right\nMy complexion she said is much too white\nHe said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right\nLet me tell the second mother this has been done\nBut the second mother was with the seventh son\nAnd they were both out on Highway 61.\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow the rovin' gambler he was very bored\nHe was tryin' to create a next world war\nHe found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor\nHe said I never engaged in this kind of thing before\nBut yes I think it can be very easily done\nWe'll just put some bleachers out in the sun\nAnd have it on Highway 61.\n\n\n\nJust Like Tom Thumb's Blues\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow if you see Saint Annie please tell her thanks a lot\nI cannot move my fingers are all in a knot\nI don't have the strength to get up and take another shot\nAnd my best friend, my doctor won't even say what it is I've got\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nSweet Melinda the peasants call her the goddess of gloom\nShe speaks good English and she invites you up into her room\nAnd you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon\nAnd she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nUp on Housing Project Hill it's either fortune or fame\nYou must pick up one or the other though neither of them are to be what they claim\nIf you're lookin' to get silly you better go back to from where you came\nBecause the cops don't need you ynd man they expect the same\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow all the authorities they just stand around and boast\nHow they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post\nAnd picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast\nWho looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nI started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff\nEverybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough\nBut the joke was on me there was nobody even there to call my bluff\nI'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough\n\n\nDesolation Row\n\nYou can play it in dropped C-tuning (Tune E-Bass string down to C)\nIn dropped C tuning the chords are played like this:\n\nC:     032010  \nCsus4: 033010  \nF/E:   003211  \nG/F#:  220003\n\n\nCapo: 4th fret\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nCinderella, she seems so easy\n\"It takes one to know one,\" she smiles\nAnd puts her hands in her back pockets\nBette Davis style\nAnd in comes Romeo, he's moaning\n\"You Belong to Me I Believe\"\nAnd someone says,\" You're in the wrong place, my friend\nYou better leave\"\nAnd the only sound that's left\nAfter the ambulances go\nIs Cinderella sweeping up\nOn Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow the moon is almost hidden\nThe stars are beginning to hide\nThe fortunetelling lady\nHas even taken all her things inside\nAll except for Cain and Abel\nAnd the hunchback of Notre Dame\nEverybody is making love\nOr else expecting rain\nAnd the Good Samaritan, he's dressing\nHe's getting ready for the show\nHe's going to the carnival tonight\nOn Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow Ophelia, she's 'neath the window\nFor her I feel so afraid\nOn her twenty-second birthday\nShe already is an old maid\nTo her, death is quite romantic\nShe wears an iron vest\nHer profession's her religion\nHer sin is her lifelessness\nAnd though her eyes are fixed upon\nNoah's great rainbow\nShe spends her time peeking\nInto Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nEinstein, disguised as Robin Hood\nWith his memories in a trunk\nPassed this way an hour ago\nWith his friend, a jealous monk\nHe looked so immaculately frightful\nAs he bummed a cigarette\nThen he went off sniffing drainpipes\nAnd reciting the alphabet\nNow you would not think to look at him\nBut he was famous long ago\nFor playing the electric violin\nOn Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nDr. Filth, he keeps his world\nInside of a leather cup\nBut all his sexless patients\nThey're trying to blow it up\nNow his nurse, some local loser\nShe's in charge of the cyanide hole\nAnd she also keeps the cards that read\n\"Have Mercy on His Soul\"\nThey all play on penny whistles\nYou can hear them blow\nIf you lean your head out far enough\nFrom Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nAcross the street they've nailed the curtains\nThey're getting ready for the feast\nThe Phantom of the Opera\nA perfect image of a priest\nThey're spoonfeeding Casanova\nTo get him to feel more assured\nThen they'll kill him with self-confidence\nAfter poisoning him with words\nAnd the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls\n\"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know\nCasanova is just being punished for going\nTo Desolation Row\"\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nNow at midnight all the agents\nAnd the superhuman crew\nCome out and round up everyone\nThat knows more than they do\nThen they bring them to the factory\nWhere the heart-attack machine\nIs strapped across their shoulders\nAnd then the kerosene\nIs brought down from the castles\nBy insurance men who go\nCheck to see that nobody is escaping\nTo Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 9]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nPraise be to Nero's Neptune\nThe Titanic sails at dawn\nAnd everybody's shouting\n\"Which Side Are You On?\"\nAnd Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot\nFighting in the captain's tower\nWhile calypso singers laugh at them\nAnd fishermen hold flowers\nBetween the windows of the sea\nWhere lovely mermaids flow\nAnd nobody has to think too much\nAbout Desolation Row\n\n\n[Verse 10]\n(same as verse 1)\n\nYes, I received your letter yesterday\n(About the time the door knob broke)\nWhen you asked how I was doing\nWas that some kind of joke?\nAll these people that you mention\nYes, I know them, they're quite lame\nI had to rearrange their faces\nAnd give them all another name\nRight now I can't read too good\nDon't send me no more letters no\nNot unless you mail them\nFrom Desolation Row#","chords":["A","C","Dm","Em","F","G","E","B","D","G7","H","Am","G#","F#","Csus4","F/E","G/F#"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}