[ Предположительная тональность: D ] Chords by: Sliver24 "Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan CAPO: II [Intro] D D D D [Verse 1] D They're selling postcards of the hanging G D They're painting the passports brown A The beauty parlour is filled with sailors G D The circus is in town D Here comes the blind commissioner G D They've got him in a trance A One hand is tied to the tightrope walker G D The other is in his pants G And the riot squad, they're restless D G They need somewhere to go D A As lady and I look out tonight from G D Desolation Row [Verse 2] D Cinderella, she seems so easy G D It takes one to know one she smiles A And puts her hands in her back pocket G D Bette Davis style D Then in comes Romeo, he's moaning G D You belong to me I believe A And someone says you're in the wrong place my friend G D You'd better leave G And the only sound that's left D G After the ambulances go D A Is Cinderella sweeping up on G D Desolation Row [Verse 3] D Now the moon is almost hidden G D The stars are beginning to hide A The fortune telling lady G D Has even taken all her things inside D All except for Cain and Abel G D And the Hunchback of Notre-Dame A Everybody is making love G D Or else expecting rain G And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing D G He's gettin' ready for the show D A He's going to the carnival tonight on G D Desolation Row [Verse 4] D Ophelia, she's 'neath the window G D For her I feel so afraid A On her twenty-second birthday G D She already is an old maid D To her, death is quite romantic G D She wears an iron vest A Her profession's her religion G D Her sin is her lifelessness G And though her eyes are fixed upon D G Noah's great rainbow D A She spends her time peeking into G D Desolation Row [Verse 5] D Einstein disguised as Robin Hood G D With his memories in a trunk A Passed this way an hour ago G D With his friend a jealous monk D Ah he looked so immaculately frightful G D As he bummed a cigarette A Then went off sniffing drain pipes G D And reciting the alphabet G You would not think to look at him D G But he was famous long ago D A For playing the electric violin on G D Desolation Row [Verse 6] D Doctor Filth, he keeps his world G D Inside of a leather cup A But all his sexless patients G D They are trying to blow it up D Now his nurse, some local loser G D She's in charge of the cyanide hole A And she also keeps the cards that read G D Have mercy on his soul G They all play on the penny whistle D G You can hear them blow D A If you lean your head out far enough from G D Desolation Row [Verse 7] D Across the street they've nailed the curtains G D They're gettin' ready for the feast A The Phantom of the Opera G D In a perfect image of a priest D They are spoon feeding Casanova G D To get him to feel more assured A Then they'll kill him with self-confidence G D After poisoning him with words G And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls D G Get outta here if you don't know D A Casanova is just being punished for going G D To Desolation Row [Verse 8] D At midnight all the agents G D And the superhuman crew A Come out and round up everyone G D That knows more than they do D Then they bring them to the factory G D Where the heart attack machine A Is strapped across their shoulders G D And then the kerosene G Is brought down from the castles D G By insurance men who go D A Check to see that nobody is escaping to G D Desolation Row [Verse 9] D Praise be to Nero's Neptune G D The Titanic sails at dawn A Everybody is shouting G D Which side are you on D And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot G D Fighting in the captain's tower A While calypso singers laugh at them G D And fishermen hold flowers G Between the windows of the sea D G Where lovely mermaids flow D A And nobody has to think too much about G D Desolation Row [Bridge] D G D A G D D G D A G D G D G D A G D (*no lyrics - harmonica solo - optional*) [Verse 10] D Yes I received your letter yesterday G D About the time the door knob broke A When you asked me how I was doing G D Was that some kind of joke D All these people that you mention G D Yes I know them, they're quite lame A I had to rearrange their faces G D And give them all another name G Right now I can't read too good D G Don't send me no more letters, no D A Not unless you mail them from G D Desolation Row /Sliver24