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