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Desolation Row

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Desolation Row

Bob Dylan — Desolation Row

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Intro 1
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Verso 1
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They're selling postcards of the hanging,
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they're painting the passports brown
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The beauty parlor is filled with sailors,
A E
the circus is in town
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Here comes the blind commissioner,
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they've got him in a trance
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One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker,
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the other is in his pants
Instrumental
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they need somewhere to go
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As Lady and I look out tonight, from
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Verso 2
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Cinderella, she seems so easy,
A E
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
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And puts her hands in her back pockets
A E
Bette Davis style
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And in comes Romeo, he's moaning.
A E
"You belong to Me I believe"
B
And someone says,
Instrumental
A E
you'd better leave"
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And the only sound that's left
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after the ambulances go
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Is Cinderella sweeping up on
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Desolation Row
Verso 3
E
Now the moon is almost hidden,
A E
the stars are beginning to hide
B
The fortune telling lady
A E
has even taken all her things inside
Instrumental
A E
and the hunchback of Notre Dame
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Everybody is making love
A E
or else expecting rain
A
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing,
E A
he's getting ready for the show
E B
He's going to the carnival tonight on
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Verso 4
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Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
A E
for her I feel so a fraid
Instrumental
A E
she already is an old maid
E
To her, death is quite romantic
A E
she wears an iron vest
B
Her profession's her religion,
A E
her sin is her lifelessness
A
And though her eyes are fixed
E A
upon Noah's great rainbow
E B
She spends her time peeking into
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Verso 5
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Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
Instrumental
B
Passed this way an hour ago
A E
with his friend, a jealous monk
E
Now he looked so immaculately frightful
A E
as he bummed a cigarette
B
And he went off sniffing drainpipes
A E
and reciting the alphabet
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You would not think to look at him,
E A
but he was famous long ago
E B
For playing the electric violin on
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Verso 6
E
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
A E
in side of a leather cup
B
But all his sexless patients,
A E
they're trying to blow it up
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Now his nurse, some local loser,
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she's in charge of the cyanide hole
B
And she also keeps the cards that read,
A E
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
A
They all play on the penny whistles,
E A
you can hear them blow
E B
If you lean your head out far enough from
Instrumental
Verso 7
E
Across the street they've nailed the curtains,
A E
they're getting ready for the feast
B
The Phantom of the Opera
A E
in a perfect image of a priest
E
They are spoon feeding Casanova
A E
to get him to feel more assured
B
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
A E
after poisoning him with words
A
And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls,
Instrumental
E B
Casanova is just being punished for going to
A E
Desolation Row
Verso 8
E
At midnight all the agents
A E
and the superhuman crew
B
Come out and round up everyone
A E
that knows more than they do
E
Then they bring them to the factory
A E
where the heart-attack machine
B
Is strapped across their shoulders
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and then the kerosene
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by insurance men who go
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Check to see that nobody is escaping to
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Verso 9
E
Praise be to Nero's Neptune,
A E
the Ti tanic sails at dawn
B
Everybody's shouting,
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"Which side are you on?!"
E
And Ez ra Pound and T.S. Eliot
A E
fighting in the captain's tower
Final
A E
and fishermen hold flowers
A
Be tween the windows of the sea
E A
where lovely mermaids flow
E B
And nobody has to think too much about
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Solo 1
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Verso 10
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Yes, I received your letter yesterday,
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about the time the doorknob broke
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When you asked me how I was doing,
A E
was that some kind of joke
E
All these people that you mention,
A E
yes, I know them, they're quite lame
B
I had to rearrange their faces
A E
and give them all another name
A
Right now, I can't read too good,
E A
don't send me no more letters no
E B
Not unless you mail them from
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Desolation Row
Solo 2
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Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan · 1965 · Track 0

Datos
Tonalidad E major
Compás 4/4
Tempo 76 BPM
Duración 11:19
Álbum Highway 61 Revisited
Año 1965
ISRC USSM16501009
Curiosidad
«Desolation row» es una canción compuesta por el cantante estadounidense Bob Dylan. Fue incluida en el álbum Highway 61 Revisited, editado el 30 de agosto de 1965. La canción tiene once minutos de duración y evoca diferentes momentos, parábolas y hechos históricos, como los linchamientos de Duluth de 1920.

La historia detrás

Once minutos y veinte segundos de guitarra acústica y letra sin parar: así es Desolation Row, el cierre del álbum Highway 61 Revisited de Bob Dylan, grabada el 4 de agosto de 1965 en los estudios Columbia de Nueva York. La canción desfila por parábolas, personajes y momentos históricos —incluyendo los linchamientos de Duluth de 1920— sin que haya una narrativa lineal que te guíe. Todo en formato folk rock, producida por Bob Johnston. Existe también una toma alternativa con guitarra eléctrica y bajo más pronunciado, que salió en The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack. La canción dejó huella en otros músicos: Joe Strummer la menciona en Coma Girl (del álbum Streetcore, 2003), Joaquín Sabina la referencia en Peces de ciudad (del álbum Dímelo en la calle, 2002), y My Chemical Romance publicó su propia versión en enero de 2010, declarando que apuntaron al sonido de los Sex Pistols.

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