Gli accordi di Desolation row di Bob Dylan

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Desolation Row è la traccia di chiusura del sesto album in studio di Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited. È nota per la sua durata (11:21) e per il testo surreale. Desolation Row è stata descritta come uno dei più alti esempi di lirismo poetico applicato a una canzone pop o rock che dir si voglia.

RE
They're selling postcards of the hanging.
         SOL                   RE
They're painting the passports brown.
    LA7
The beauty parlour's filled with sailors.
SOL                RE
The circus is in town.
RE
Here comes the blind commissioner.
        SOL          RE
They've got him in a trance.
    LA7
One hand's tied to the tightrope walker.
SOL                  RE
The other is in his pants.
        SOL
And the riot squad they're restless
     RE                  SOL
they need some where to go.
   RE              LA7
As lady and I look out tonight
SOL            RE
on Desolation row.
RE
Cinderella she seem so easy.
         SOL                   RE
It takes on to know one she smiles.
    LA7
Then puts her hand in her back pocket,
SOL           RE
Betty Davis style.
RE
Then in comes Romeo he's moaning.
        SOL          RE
You Belong to me I believe.
    LA7
And someone says your in the wrong place my friend
SOL          RE
You better leave
        SOL
and the only sound that's left
     RE               SOL
after the ambulances go
   RE              LA7
is Cinderella sweeping up
SOL         RE
on Desolation row.
RE
Now the moon is almost hidden
         SOL              RE
the stars are beginning to hide
    LA7
The fortune telling lady
SOL                                RE
Has already taken all her things inside.
RE
All except for Cane and Able
        SOL          RE
and the Hunch Back of Notre Dame
    LA7
everyone is making love
SOL             RE
or else expecting rain
        SOL
And the good Samaritan he's dressing
     RE                      SOL
He's gettin ready for the show.
   RE              LA7
He's going to the carnival
SOL            RE
tonight on Desolation row.
RE
Now Ophelia she's 'neath the window.
      SOL           RE
For her I feel so afraid.
    LA7
On her twenty-second birthday
SOL                   RE
She already is an old maid.
RE
To her death is quite romantic.
     SOL          RE
She wears an iron vest.
    LA7
Her profession's her religion,
SOL                  RE
her sin is her lifelessness.
        SOL
And though her eyes are fixed upon
     RE           SOL
Noah's great rainbow
   RE              LA7
she spends her time peeking
SOL            RE
into Desolation row.
RE
Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
         SOL           RE
With his memories in a trunk
    LA7
Passed this way an hour ago
SOL                        RE
With his friend a jealous monk.
RE
He looked so frightful
        SOL          RE
As he bummed a cigarette
    LA7
Then went off sniffing drain pipes
SOL                  RE
and reciting the alphabet.
        SOL
No you would not think to look at him
     RE                  SOL
That he was famous long ago
   RE              LA7
for playing electric violin
SOL         RE
on Desolation row.
RE
Doctor filth he keeps his word
     SOL       RE
Inside a leather cup
    LA7
But all his sexless patients
SOL                  RE
Are trying to blow it up.
RE
Now his nurse a local looser
        SOL                 RE
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
    LA7
And she also keeps the cards that read
SOL              RE
Have mercy on his soul.
        SOL
They all play on penny whistles
     RE               SOL
You can hear them blow
   RE                     LA7
If you lean your head out far enough
SOL            RE
from Desolation row
RE
Across the street they've nailed the curtains
         SOL                RE
they're gettin ready for the feast
    LA7
the phantom of the opera
SOL                    RE
a perfect image of a priest
RE
They're spoon feedin Casanova
        SOL              RE
to get him to feel more assured
    LA7
then they'll killed him with self confidence
SOL                  RE
after poisoning him with words
        SOL
and the phantom shouting to skinning girls
     RE                   SOL
get outta her don't you know
   RE              LA7
Casanova is just being punished
SOL            RE
for going to Desolation row.
RE
Now at midnight all the agents
     SOL           RE
And the superhuman crews
    LA7
round up everyone
SOL                       RE
That knows more than they do.
RE
Then they bring them to the factory
        SOL               RE
where the heart attack machines
    LA7
is strapped across their shoulders
SOL             RE
And then the kerosene
        SOL
is brought down from the castles
     RE                 SOL
by insurance men that go
   RE              LA7
check to see that nobody is escaping
SOL           RE
to Desolation row
RE
Praise be to Nero's Neptune
    SOL             RE
The Titanic sails at dawn
    LA7
and everybody shouting
SOL                RE
which side are you on
RE
and Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
        SOL          RE
fighting in the captains tower
    LA7
while calypso signers laugh at them
SOL                  RE
and fishermen hold flowers
        SOL
between the windows of the sea
     RE                SOL
where lovely mermaids flow
   RE              LA7
and nobody has to think too much
SOL            RE
about Desolation row
RE
Yes I received your letter yesterday
         SOL                 RE
About the time the door knob broke.
    LA7
When you asked me how I was
SOL                RE
Was that some kind of joke.
RE
All those people that you mention
        SOL          RE
yes I know them they're quite lame.
    LA7
I had to rearrange their faces
SOL                  RE
and give them all another name.
        SOL
Right now I can't read too good
     RE                        SOL
don't send me no more letters no.
   RE              LA7
Not unless you mail them from
SOL        RE
Desolation row.