Chords for Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Official Audio)

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They're selling postcards of the hanging.
[A] They're painting the [E] passports brown.
[F#] The [B] beauty parlor is filled with sailors.
[A] The circus is in [E].
town.
Here comes the blind commissioner.
[A] They've got him in [E] a trance.
[B] One hand is tied to the tightrope walker.
[A] The other is in [E] his pants.
[A] And the riot squad They're restless.
[E] They need somewhere [A] to go.
[E] as lady and I.
[B] look up tonight [A] from Desolation.
[E] Cinderella she seems so easy.
[A] That takes one to know [E] one she smiles.
[B] And puts her hands in her back pocket.
[A] very Davis [E] style.
And incomes Romeo he's moaning.
You [A] belong to me [E] I believe.
[B] And someone says you're in the wrong place my [A] friend.
You'd better [E] leave.
[A] And the only sound that's left.
[E].
After the [A] ambulances go.
[E] this Cinderella.
[B] sweeping up [A] on Desolation.
[E] [A] Now [E] .
the moon is almost hidden.
[A] The stars are beginning [E] to hide [B] the fortune.
Telling lady [A] has even taken all her [E] things inside .
I'll accept for Cain and Abel.
and [A] the hunchback of Notre [E] Dame .
[B] Everybody is making love.
[A] Expecting [E] rain and [A] the good Samaritan he's dressing.
He's [E] getting ready for [A] the show .
[E] He's going to the [B] [G#m] carnival tonight.
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[A] [E] I'm Desolation.
I'll feel you she's neat the window.
[A] For her I feel [E] so [C#m] afraid [B] on her 22nd birthday.
She [A] already is an old [E] maid.
To her death is quite romantic.
She [A] was an iron [E] vest.
[B] Her professions her religion .
[A] Her sin is her [E] lifelessness.
[A] and.
I fixed [E] upon.
Noah's great [A] rainbow .
[E] She spends her time [B] peeking [A] into Desolation.
[E] Rule.
[A] .
[E] Einstein disguised as Robin Hood.
[A] with his memories in [E] our trunk .
[B] Passed this way an hour [F#] ago [A] with his friend a jealous [E] monk .
Now he looks so immaculately frightful.
[A] as he bummed a [E] cigarette .
[B] Then he went off sniffing.
drainpipes [A] and reciting the [E] alphabet .
[A] You would not think to look at him, but [E] he was famous [A] long ago.
[E] for playing the [B] electric violin [A] on [E] Desolation.
Dr.
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Phil he keeps his world .
[A] Inside of a leather [E] cup .
[B] But all his sexless patients.
They [A] are trying to blow [E] it up .
Now his nurse some local loser .
[A] She's in charge of the [E] cyanide hole.
[B] And she also keeps the cards that read [A] have mercy on [E] his soul .
[A] They all play on the penny.
Whistle [E] you can hear [A] them blow.
If [E] you lean your head.
[B] out far [F#] enough [A] from [E] Desolation rule .
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Across the street.
They've nailed the curtains.
[A] They're getting ready for the [E] feast .
[B] the Phantom.
of the Opera.
in [A] a perfect image of [E] a priest.
They are spoon-feeding Casanova.
To [A] get him to feel more [E] assured.
Then [B] they'll kill him with self-confidence.
After [A] poisoning him with [E] words .
Then [A] the Phantom shouting to skinny girls [E] get out of here if [A] you don't know.
[E] Casanova is just being [B] punished for [A] going to Desolation [E] rule.
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at midnight.
all the agents.
[A] and the [E] superhuman crew .
[B] Come out and round up.
Everyone [A] that knows more than [E] they do .
Then they bring them to the factory .
[A] where the heart attack [E] machine .
[B] is slapped across their shoulders [A] and then the [E] kerosene .
[A] Is brought down from the castle [E] by insurance men [A] who go.
[E] Check to see that nobody [B] is escaping [A] to [E] Desolation rule .
Praise be to Nero's Neptune.
[A] the Titanic [E] sails at dawn.
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Everybody's shouting.
[A] Which side are [E] you on?.
and Ezra Pound and T.
S.
Eliot.
[A] fighting in the [E] captain's tower [B] while.
Calypso singers laugh at them [A] and.
Fishermen hold [E] flowers.
[A] Between the windows of the sea where [E] lovely [C#m].
[A] mermaids flow.
And [E] nobody has [C#m] to [B] think too much [A] about Desolation [E] rule .
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I received your letter yesterday .
[A] About the time the door [E] now broke .
[B] When you asked me how I was doing .
[A] Was that some kind [E] of joke?.
all these people that you mentioned.
[A] Yes, I know them.
They are quite [E] lame.
[B] I had to.
rearrange their faces [A] and give them all another [E] name.
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Right now I can't read too good.
[E] Don't send me no more [A] letters.
No.
[E].
Not unless [B] you mail them from.
[A] [E] Desolation rule .
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