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Title: Mr Tambourine Man
Artist: The Byrds
[Intro]
D G A
[Chorus]
G A D G
Hey! Mister 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! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me
D G Em A D G D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
[Verse]
G A D G
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into the sand.
D G D G
Vanished from my hand, left me blindly here to stand
Em A
but still not sleeping
G A D G D G
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet 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
Hey! Mister 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! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me
D G Em A D G D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
[Verse]
G A D G
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
D G D G
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel the grip
D G D G
my toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
Em A
to be wandering
G A D G
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
D G D G
Into my own parade cast your dancing spell my way
Em A
I promise to go under it
[Chorus]
G A D G
Hey! Mister 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! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me
D G Em A D G D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
[Verse]
G A D G
Though you might hear laughin' spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
D G D G
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
Em A
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'
G A D G
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
D G D G
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
G A D G D G
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Em A
seein' that he's chasing
[Chorus]
G A D G
Hey! Mister 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! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me
D G Em A D G D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
[Verse]
G A D G
Then take me dissapearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
D G D G
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
G A D G D G
The haunted, frightended trees out to the windy beach
Em A
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
G A D G
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand wavin' free
D G D G
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
Em A
With all memory and fate drive deep beneath the waves
G A D G
Let me forget about today until tomorrow