Songbook

Mr. Tambourine Man

By Bob Dylan

Key of F

[Intro]
F F  Fsus2 Fsus2 F

[Chorus]
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        F                Bb               C
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       F             Bb                 C         F
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

[Verse]
Bb                           C          F             Bb
Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand,
F                Bb
Vanished from my hand,
        F               Bb                   C
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
   Bb          C             F             Bb
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
  F              Bb
I have no one to meet
        F             Bb                     C
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

[Chorus]
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        F                Bb               C
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       F             Bb                 C         F
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

[Verse]
Bb            C              F              Bb
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship,
   F                Bb            F                   Bb
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
   F                Bb          F           Bb
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
      C
To be wandering.
    Bb           C             F            Bb
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
  F           Bb               F                Bb
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
                C
I promise to go under it.

[Chorus]
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        F                Bb               C
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       F             Bb                 C         F
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

[Verse]
Bb                               C                  F                Bb
Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun,
         F           Bb                F             Bb
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run
        F                 Bb             C
And but for the sky there are no fences facing.
    Bb                 C         F                 Bb
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
        F             Bb                 F              Bb
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
           F          Bb                 F
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Bb                C
Seeing that he's chasing.

[Chorus]
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        F                Bb               C
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       F             Bb                 C         F
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

[Bridge]
     Bb            C                   F                 Bb
Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind,
         F              Bb         F               Bb
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
    F                   Bb          F            Bb
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
    F                Bb              C
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
        Bb                 C                F               Bb
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
    F              Bb            F             Bb
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
         F          Bb           F                Bb
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
          F         Bb             C
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

[Chorus]
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        F                Bb               C
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bb        C               F               Bb
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       F             Bb                 C         F
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.