Acorde de Desolation Row [Alternate Take] - Bob Dylan

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They're selling postcards of the hanging. 


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They're painting the passports brown. 


    A7 


The beauty parlour's filled with sailors. 


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The circus is in town. 


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Here comes the blind commissioner. 


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They've got him in a trance. 


    A7 


One hand's tied to the tightrope walker. 


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The other is in his pants. 


        G 


And the riot squad they're restless 


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They need some where to go. 


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As lady and I look out tonight 


G              D 


On Desolation Row. 





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Cinderella she seem so easy. 


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It takes on to know one she smiles. 


    A7 


Then puts her hand in her back pocket, 


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Betty Davis style. 


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Then in comes Romeo he's moaning. 


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You Belong to me I believe. 


    A7 


And someone says your in the wrong place my friend 


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You better leave. 


        G 


And the only sound that's left 


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After the ambulances go. 


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Is Cinderella sweeping up 


G           D 


On Desolation Row. 





D 


Now the moon is almost hidden 


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The stars are beginning to hide 


    A7 


The fortune telling lady 


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Has already taken all her things inside. 


D 


All except for Cane and Able 


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And the Hunch Back of Notre Dame 


    A7 


Everyone is making love 


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Or else expecting rain 


        G 


And the good Samaritan he's dressing 


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He's gettin ready for the show. 


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He's going to the carnival 


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Tonight on Desolation Row. 





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Now Ophelia she's 'neath the window. 


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For her I feel so afraid. 


    A7 


On her twenty-second birthday 


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She already is an old maid. 


D 


To her death is quite romantic. 


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She wears an iron vest. 


    A7 


Her profession's her religion, 


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Her sin is her lifelessness. 


        G 


And though her eyes are fixed upon 


     D            G 


Noah's great rainbow 


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She spends her time peeking 


G              D 


Into Desolation Row. 





D 


Einstein disguised as Robin Hood 


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With his memories in a trunk 


    A7 


Passed this way an hour ago 


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With his friend a jealous monk. 


D 


He looked so frightful 


        G            D 


As he bummed a cigarette 


    A7 


Then went off sniffing drain pipes 


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And reciting the alphabet. 


        G 


No you would not think to look at him 


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That he was famous long ago 


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For playing electric violin 


G           D 


On Desolation Row. 





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D 


Doctor filth he keeps his word 


     G         D 


Inside a leather cup 


    A7 


But all his sexless patients 


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Are trying to blow it up. 


D 


Now his nurse a local looser 


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She's in charge of the cyanide hole 


    A7 


And she also keeps the cards that read 


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Have mercy on his soul. 


        G 


They all play on penny whistles 


     D               G 


You can hear them blow 


   D                      A7 


If you lean your head out far enough 


G            D 


From Desolation Row 





D 


Across the street they've nailed the curtains 


         G                  D 


They're gettin ready for the feast 


    A7 


The phantom of the opera 


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A perfect image of a priest 


D 


They're spoon feedin Casanova 


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To get him to feel more assured 


    A7 


Then they'll killed him with self confidence 


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After poisoning him with words 


        G 


And the phantom shouting to skinning girls 


     D                    G 


Get outta her don't you know 


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Casanova is just being punished 


G              D 


For going to Desolation Row. 





D 


Now at midnight all the agents 


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And the superhuman crews 


    A7 


Round up everyone 


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That knows more than they do. 


D 


Then they bring them to the factory 


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Where the heart attack machines 


    A7 


Is strapped across their shoulders 


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And then the kerosene 


        G 


Is brought down from the castles 


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By insurance men that go 


   D               A7 


Check to see that nobody is escaping 


G            D 


To Desolation Row 





D 


Praise be to Nero's Neptune 


    G               D 


The Titanic sails at dawn 


    A7 


And everybody shouting 


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Which side are you on 


D 


And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot 


        G            D 


Fighting in the captains tower 


    A7 


While calypso signers laugh at them 


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And fishermen hold flowers 


        G 


Between the windows of the sea 


     D                  G 


Where lovely mermaids flow 


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And nobody has to think too much 


G              D 


About Desolation Row 





D 


Yes I received your letter yesterday 


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About the time the door knob broke. 


    A7 


When you asked me how I was 


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Was that some kind of joke. 


D 


All those people that you mention 


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Yes I know them they're quite lame. 


    A7 


I had to rearrange their faces 


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And give them all another name. 


        G 


Right now I can't read too good 


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Don't send me no more letters no. 


   D               A7 


Not unless you mail them from 


G          D 


Desolation Row.