Chords for Grateful Dead-Desolation Row (3-24-90)

_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
They're selling [E] postcards over Hanover.
_ [E] They're painting passports brown.
[B] Beauty parlors filled with sailors.
[A] What circus [Em] is your town?
_ [E] He wants the blind commissioner.
_ [F#] They've got him in a [E] trance.
One hand is tied to the Condor [B] Walker.
_ [A] The other is in his [E] pants.
[A] And the riot squad, they're restless.
[E] They need somewhere to [A] go.
As Lady and I [G#] look out tonight [F#] on Desolation [E] Road.
_ _ _ _ _ Now Cinderella, she's here so easy.
[A] Takes one to know one, she [E] smiles.
[B] Puts her hand in her back pocket.
Lady and I, _ _ [A] Lady gave a [E] smile.
And then walks Romeo, he's moaning.
[A] You belong to me, I [E] believe.
[B] Someone says you're in the wrong place, my friend.
[A] You better [E] leave.
[A] And the only sound you hear [E] after the ambulance [A] has gone.
_ [E]
Cinderella [B] sweeping up [A] on [E] Desolation Road. _ _
_ _ _ _ Now I feel she's near the window.
[A] For her I feel [E] so afraid.
_ [B] On her 22nd birthday, _ [A] she already is [E] an old fool.
To her death is quite romantic.
_ She wears an iron vest.
For [B] professional services.
_ [A] For sinners or [E] righteous.
_ [A] Before he's, he's grazed [E] upon the great, great [A] rainbow.
_ [E] She spends her [B] time peeking in [A] on [E] Desolation Road. _ _ _
_ _ Now Einstein disguised as Robin Hood.
With his memories in a trunk.
_ [B] _ Passed this way an hour ago.
[A]
With his friend, [E] a jealous monk.
Why he looked so immaculately frightful.
[A]
As he bummed [E] a cigarette.
_ [B] And he went all sniffing green, clive.
[A] And reciting the [E] alphabet.
[A] Oh you would think, what in the hell.
[E] But he was famous [A] long ago.
[E] For playing [B] electric violin.
_ [A]
On [E] Desolation Road.
_ Dr.
Phil, he keeps it warm.
_ Inside of a leather cup.
_ [B] And all his sexless pleasures.
They're all trying to [E] blow it up.
And his nurse, some local loser.
[A] She's in charge of the [E] cyanide hole.
[B] And she also keeps the cards and [A] rings.
Have mercy on his [E] soul.
_ [A] They all play on the penny whistle.
[E] Yes, you can [A] hear them blow.
[E] If you lean your head [B] out.
Far enough [E] from Desolation Road. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [E] Oh, oh, oh, oh, [B] oh, oh.
Oh, _ _ [A] oh, oh, oh, oh, _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ oh.
Oh, oh, oh, [B] oh, _ oh, oh.
[E] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
[A] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _
Across the street, they veil the curtains.
They're [A] getting ready for the feast.
[E] _ [B] The Phantom of the Opera.
_ [G#] [A] In the perfect image of a [E] priest.
And they're spoon feeding Casanova.
[A] To get him to feel more [E] assured.
[B] Then they'll kill him with self confidence.
After [E] poisoning him with words.
[A] And the Phantom's shouting.
Who's getting early?
[E] Get out of here, you don't [A] know.
_ [E] Casanova's just [B] being punished.
You're going to _ [E]
Desolation Road.
Now at midnight, all the agents.
And the super human crew.
_ [B] They're going around of everyone. _
That knows [E] more than they do.
They take them to the factory. _
[A] Where a heart attack machine.
[E] _ [B] Is strapped across their shoulders.
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ Is brought down from the castle.
By insurance men who go.
[E] To make sure nobody's [B] escaping.
To [E] Desolation Road.
_ _ Ah, praise be.
To me, Rose Neptune.
The Titanic sails at dawn.
_ [B] _
Everybody's shouting.
_ [A] Which side are [E] you on?
T.S. Eliot, I'm T.S. Eliot.
[A] They're fighting in the [E] captain's tower.
[B] While Pulitzer singers laugh at them.
Yeah.
[A] Fishing in [E] the flower.
_ [A]
Between the windows.
Of the sea.
[E] Where I'll let my [A] man throw.
_ [E]
No one has [B] to think too much.
[A] At our [E] Desolation Road. _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
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_ [B] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
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_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yes, I received your letter yesterday.
About [A] the time the door [E] knocked on.
[B] When you asked how I was doing.
_ Was that [E] some kind of joke? _
These people that you mentioned.
[A] Yes, I know they're [E] quite lame.
[B] I had to rearrange their faces.
[A] And give them all [E] another name.
[A] _
Right now I can't leave so.
[E] Lord Captain, I'm out [A] of this town.
_ [E] _
[B] Not unless you mail them [A] from.
[E] Desolation Road.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _