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Ballad of a Thin Man

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Ballad of a Thin Man

Bob Dylan — Ballad of a Thin Man

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Intro 1
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Em Bm
Em Bm Em Bm
Verse 1
Bm
You
A#aug
walk into the room with your pencil in your hand
D A D E
You see somebody naked and you say,
"Who is that man?"
G
You try so hard but
Em
you don't understand
D F#m
Just what you will say
Bm
when you get home
D F#m
Because something is happening here
Bm
but you don't know what it is
G Bm
C you, Mr. Jones?
Em Bm Em
Verse 2
F#
You raise up your head and you ask,
A#aug D
"Is this where it is?"
A E
And somebody points to you and says,
"It's his"
Em G
And you say, "What's mine?" and somebody else says,
Em
"Well, what is?"
D
And you say, "Oh my God,
F#m Bm
am I here all alone?"
D F#m
But something is happening
Bm
and you don't know what it is
G Bm
C you, Mr. Jones?
Em Bm Em Bm
Verse 3
A#aug
You hand in your ticket and
F# A#aug F#
you go watch the geek
A
Who immediately walks up to you
D E
when he hears you speak
G
And says, "How does it feel
Em
to be such a freak?"
G D
And you say, "Impossible!"
F#m Bm
as he hands you a bone
D F#m
And something is hap pening here
Bm
but you don't know what it is
G
C you, Mr. Jones?
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Verse 4
You have many contacts
D
among the lumberjacks
G
To get you facts when someone attacks
Bm
your imagination
But nobody has any respect,
D G
anyway they already expect you to all give a check
Em A
To tax- deductible charity organizations
Verse 5
A Bm
Ah, you've been with the professors and
A# F# A#aug
they've all liked your looks
A
With great lawyers you have
E
discussed lepers and crooks
G
You've been through all of F. Scot
Em
t Fitzgerald's books
D
You're very well- read,
F#m Bm
it's well- known
D F#m
But something is hap pening here
Bm
and you don't know what it is
G Bm Em Bm
C you, Mr. Jones?
Em
Verse 6
Well, the sword swallower,
F#
he comes up to you and then he kneels
A D Bm G#dim
He crosses himself and
G#m E
then he clicks his high heels
G
And without further notice,
Em
he asks you how it feels
D F#m
And he says, "Here is your throat back,
Bm
thanks for the loan"
D F#m
And you know something is happening
Bm
but you don't know what it is
G Bm Em Bm
C you, Mr. Jones?
Em
Verse 7
Now, you see this one- eyed midget shouting
A# A#aug D
the word "Now"
A E
And you say, "For what reason?" and he says,
"How"
G Em
And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back,
"You're a cow!
D F#m Bm
Give me some milk or else go home"
D F#m
And you know something's happening
Bm G
but you don't know what it is
Bm Em Bm Em
C you, Mr. Jones?
Verse 8
Bm A#aug
Well, you walk into the room like a camel,
Bm A#aug
and then you frown
A
You put your eyes in your pocket and your
E G#m E
nose on the ground
G Em
There ought to be a law against
you comin' around
D
You should be made to
F#m Bm
wear earphones
D F#m
'Cause something is happening
Bm
and you don't know what it is
G Bm Em Bm
C you, Mr. Jones?
Em Bm
Ballad of a Thin Man opens with a dark piano and a pointing finger of a voice. Bob Dylan recorded it on August 2, 1965, at Columbia Studios in New York, along with three other songs from that same album: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Queen Jane Approximately, and Highway 61 Revisited. It runs nearly six minutes, is produced by Bob Johnston, and ended up as part of Highway 61 Revisited, the first record on which Dylan used a backing band on every track. The lyrics revolve around a certain Mr. Jones, a guy who understands nothing of what is going on around him. Dylan never clarified who that character is — he said he was not going to reveal it because he would be sued, and that the only thing he would confirm was that the man wears suspenders. That opacity is part of the game: he himself admitted that people dissect his songs like rabbits without ever understanding what they are about. If you are going to play it, embrace that ambiguity: the heavy blues rock that underpins it says as much as the lyrics.