#12 Desolation Row ~ Bob Dylan ~ Acoustic Cover w/ Harley Benton MJCE & Bluesharp ~ Tribute

(c)1965 Words & Music by Bob Dylan
Track 9 on Bob Dylan´s album "61 Highway Revisited"
Track 7 on Bob Dylan´s album "MTV Unplugged" (1995)
Hap-B-day, Jack Frost!
Arr. stagwolf [According to 7 Stanza-MTV-Unplugged version key of C, Capo 2nd fret, sounds in D, Original key is E
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1.They’re selling postcards of the hanging, they’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner, they’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless, they need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight from Desolation Row.
2.Cinderella, she seems so easy, “It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets, Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning, “You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend, you better leave”
And the only sound that’s left after the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.
3.Now the moon is almost hidden, the stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing, he’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
4.Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window, for her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday, she already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic, she wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion, her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon, Noah’s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row.
5.Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains, they’re getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera, a perfect image of a priest
They’re spoonfeeding Casanova to get him to feel more assured
Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence after poisoning him with words
And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls, “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row”.. [Bluesharp
6.Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
They bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping to Desolation Row..
7.I received your letter yesterday., about the time the doorknob broke
When you asked how I was doing, was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention, yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good, don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row.. [Bluesharp to fade
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Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music
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Bluesharp Key of D
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