| C Hey Mister |
D Tambourine man, |
G play a song for |
C me |
| I'm not |
G sleepy and there |
C ain't no place I'm |
D goin' to |
| C Hey Mister |
D Tambourine man, |
G play a song for |
C me |
| In that |
G jingle jangle |
C morning I'll come |
D following |
G you |
| Though I |
C know that evening's |
D empire has |
G returned into |
Em sand |
| G Vanished from my |
Em hand, left me |
G blindly here to |
C stand but still not |
D sleeping |
| My |
C weariness a |
D mazes me, I'm |
G branded on my |
C feet |
| I |
G have no one to |
C meet, and the |
G ancient empty |
C street's too dead for |
D dreamin' |
| (Repeat chorus) |
| C Take me on a |
D trip upon your |
G magic swirling |
Em ship |
| My |
G senses have been |
Em stripped, My |
G hands can't feel to |
Em grip, My |
G toes too numb to |
Em step |
| Wait |
G only for my |
C bootheels to be |
D wandering |
| I'm |
C ready to go |
D anywhere, I'm |
G ready for to |
C fade |
| G Into my own pa |
C rade, Cast your |
G dancing spell my |
C way, I |
G promise to go |
D under it. |
| (Repeat chorus) |
| Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun It's not aimed at anyone, It's just escaping on the run And but for the sky there are no fences facing And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme, To your tambourine in time It's just a ragged clown behind, I wouldn't pay it any mind It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing. (Repeat chorus) |
| Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time, Far past the frozen leaves The haunted frightened trees, Out to the windy bench Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea, Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow. |