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[Intro]
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C | Csus4 | C | Csus4
C | Csus4
[Verse 1]
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C Csus4 C
They're selling postcards of the hanging
F C
They're painting the passports brown
G
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
F C
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
F C
They've got him in a trance
G
One hand is tied to the tightrope walker
F C
The other is in his pants
F
And the riot squad, they're restless
C F
They need somewhere to go
C G
As Lady and I look out tonight
F C Csus4 C Csus4
From Desolation Row
[Verse 2]
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C
Cinderella, she seems so easy
F C
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
G
And puts her hands in her back pockets
F C
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
F C
'You Belong to Me, I Believe"
G
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend
F C
You'd better leave"
F
And the only sound thatâs left
C F
After the ambulances go
C G
Is Cinderella sweeping up
F C Csus4 C Csus4
On Desolation Row
[Verse 3]
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C Csus4 C
Now the moon is almost hidden
F C
The stars are beginning to hide
G
The fortunetelling lady
F C
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
F C
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
G
Everybody is making love
F C
Or else expecting rain
F
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
C F
He's getting ready for the show
C G
He's going to the carnival tonight
F C Csus4 C Csus4
On Desolation Row
[Verse 4]
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C Csus4 C
Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
F C
For her I feel so afraid
G
On her twentysecond birthday
F C
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
F C
She wears an iron vest
G
Her profession's her religion
F C
Her sin is her lifelessness
F
And though her eyes are fixed upon
C F
Noah's great rainbow
C G
She spends her time peeking
F C Csus4 C Csus4
Into Desolation Row
[Verse 5]
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C Csus4 C
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
F C
With his memories in a trunk
G
Passed this way an hour ago
F C
With his friend, a jealous monk
Now he looked so immaculately frightful
F C
As he bummed a cigarette
G
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
F C
And reciting the alphabet
F
You would not think to look at him
C F
But he was famous long ago
C G
For playing the electric violin
F C Csus4 C Csus4
On Desolation Row
[Verse 6]
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C
Doctor Filth, he keeps his world
F
Inside of a leather cup
C G
But all his sexless patients
F
They're trying to blow it up
C
Now his nurse, some local loser
F C
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
G
And she also keeps the cards that read
F C
"Have mercy on his soul"
F
They all play on the pennywhistle
C F
You can hear them blow
C G
If you lean your head out far enough
F C Csus4 C Csus4
From Desolation Row
[Verse 7]
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C Csus4 C
Across the street they've nailed the curtains
F C
They're getting ready for the feast
G
The Phantom of the Opera
F C
In a perfect image of a priest
They are spoon feeding Casanova
F C
To get him to feel more assured
G
Then they'll kill him with selfconfidence
F
After poisoning him with words
C F
And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
C F
"Get outta here if you donât know
C G
Casanova is just being punished for going
F C Csus4 C Csus4
To Desolation Row"
[Verse 8]
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C Csus4 C
At midnight all the agents
F C
And the superhuman crew
G
Come out and round up everyone
F C
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
F
Where the heart attack machine
C G
Is strapped across their shoulders
F C
And then the kerosene
F
Is brought down from the castles
C F
By insurance men who go
C G
Check to see that nobody is escaping
F C Csus4
To Desolation Row
[Verse 9]
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C Csus4 C
Praise be to Nero's Neptune
F C
The Titanic sails at dawn
G
Everybody's shouting
F C
"Which side are you on?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
F C
Fighting in the captain's tower
G
While calypso singers laugh at them
F C
And fishermen hold flowers
F
Between the windows of the sea
C F
Where lovely mermaids flow
C G
And nobody has to think too much
F C Csus4
About Desolation Row
[Harmonica Solo]
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C | Csus4 | C | F | C
G | F | C | F
C | G | F | C
F | C | F | C
G | F | C | Csus4
[Verse 10]
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C Csus4 C
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
F C
About the time the doorknob broke
G
When you asked me how I was doing
F C
Was that some kinda joke?
All these people that you mention
F C
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
G
I had to rearrange their faces
F
And give them all another name
C F
Right now, I canât read too good
C F
Don't send me no more letters, no
C G
Not unless you mail them
F C Csus4
From Desolation Row
[Outro]
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C | Csus4 | C | Csus4 | F | C
G | F | C | F
C | G | F | C
F | C | F | C
G | F | C
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