Abbey Lincoln

Mr Tambourine Man

Abbey Lincoln


Tom: D

Intro:  D

G    A         D          G
Hey  Mr  Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
      D                      A
 I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to    
G    A         D          G
Hey  Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
     D           G          A       D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you    
     G            A      D        G
Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand 
 D          G
Vanished from my hand 
      D          G             A
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping 
  G      A       D        G
My weariness amazes me I'm branded on my feet 
  D        G
I have no one to meet 
     D          G             A
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming 
G    A         D          G
Hey  Mr  Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
      D                      A
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to    
G    A         D         G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
     D           G          A       D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you    
  G     A          D        G
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship 
   D         G                  D         G
My senses have been stripped, may hands can't feel to grip 
  D          G                D          G       A
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my bootheels to be wandering 
   G         A      D        G                       D     G
I'm ready to go anywhere  I'm ready for to fade,  into my own parade 
      D         G     Bm         A
Cast your dancing spell my way  I promise to go under it 
G    A         D         G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
      D                      A
 I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to    
G    A         D         G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
     D           G          A       D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you    

Interlude: ( G A D G D G D G D G D G D G A D G D G D G D G A D )

     G            A            D           G
Though you might hear laughing  spinning  swinging madly across the sun 
      D        G                  D           G
It's not aimed at anyone,  it's just escaping on the run 
     D            G         A
And but for the sky there are no fences facing 
        G      A     D           G
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme 
     D       G                        D       G
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind 
      D         G
I wouldn't pay it any mind 
          D        G          A
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing 
G    A         D          G
Hey  Mr  Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
      D                      A
 I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to    
G    A         D          G
Hey  Mr  Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
     D           G          A       D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you    
  G        A          D            G
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind 
   D          G                   D           G
Down the foggy ruins of time far past the frozen leaves 
  D           G                D         G
The haunted frightened trees, out to the windy bench 
  D           G     Bm    A
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow 
    G          A        D         G
Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free 
   D         G               D          G
Silhouetted by the sea circled by the circus sands 
     D      G                D         G
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves 
    D          G      A
Let me forget about today until tomorrow 
G    A         D         G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
      D                      A
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to    
G    A         D         G
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man  play a song for me             
     D           G          A       D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you