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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Tambourine Man – Bob Dylan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: “Bringing It All Back Home” (1965) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Drop-D (+ capo 3rd fret) capo: 3rd fret play: D key: F For chords in original key, transpose this tab +3 (and "use flats") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS D-A-D-G-B-e D 0-0-0-2-3-2 Dsus2 0-0-0-2-3-0 G/B x-2-0-0-0-3 G/D 0-2-0-0-0-3 A x-0-2-2-2-0 Em 2-2-2-0-0-0 (following D) Em 2-2-0-0-0-3 (following G/D or G/B) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + Dsus2|D |D Dsus2|D Dsus2|D | [Chorus] G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A [ D ] In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you | D Dsus2 | D Dsus2 | D | [Verse 1] G/B A D G/D Though I know the evenings empire has returned into sand D G/D Vanished from my hand D Em A Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping G/B A D G/B My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet D G/B I have no one to meet D G/B Em A And the ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming (Chorus] G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A [ D ] In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you | D Dsus4 Dsus2 | D Dsus2 | D | % | [Verse 2] G/B A D G/D Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship D G/D D G/D My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip D G/D D Em A My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin' G/B A D G/D Im ready to go anywhere I’m ready for to fade D G/D D G/D Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way Em A I promise to go under it (Chorus] G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A [ D ] In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you | D Dsus4 Dsus2 | D Dsus2 | D | % | [Verse 3] G/B A Though you might hear laughing, spinning D G/D Swinging madly across the sun, D G/D D G/D It’s not aimed at anyone, it’s just escaping on the run D Em A And but for the sky, there are no fences facing G/B A D G/B And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme D G/B D G/B To your tambourine in time, it’s just a ragged clown behind D G/B I wouldn't pay it any mind D Em A it’s just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing (Chorus] G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A [ D ] In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you | D Dsus4 Dsus2 | D | [Solo] | G/D | A | | D | G/D | D | G/D | | D | G/D | D | G/D | | D | G/D | D | Em | A | % | | G/D | A | | D | G/D | D | G/D | | D | G/D | D | Em | A | | D | D Dsus4 Dsus2 | D | % | [Verse 4] G/B A D G/B Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind D G/B D G/B Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves D G/B D G/B The haunted frightened trees, out to the windy beach D G/B Em A Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow G/B A D G/B Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free D G/B D G/B Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands D G/B D G/B With all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves, D Em A Let me forget about today until tommorow (Chorus] G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A ( Asus4 A ] I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. G/B A D G/B Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, D G/B A [ D ] In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come followin' you | D Dsus4 Dsus2 | D | [Solo] | G/D | A | | D | G/D | D | G/D | | D | G/D | D | Em | A | % | (fade out over last 6 bars)