Desolation Row chords by Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman
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Intro 1
(D major)
Verse 1
They're selling (D major) postcard
(A major) s at (D major) the hanging
They're (G major) painting the
past por (D major) ous brown
(A major) The beauty parlor's filled with sailors,
the (G major) circus is in town. (D major)
And in walks the blind commissioner,
they've (G major) got him in a trance. (D major)
One hand is (A major) tied to the tightrope walker,
the (G major) other is in his pants. (D major)
And they're (G major) asked why
they're restless
They (D major) need somewhere to go (G major)
This (D major) lady and I (A major) look out tonight
On (G major) Desolation Road (D major) (G major) (D major)
Cinderella, she seems so easy
(G major) Takes one to know one, she smiles (D major)
(A major) Puts her hands in her back pockets
(G major) Betty Davis style (D major)
And in walks Romeo, he's moaning
You be (G major) long to me, I believe (D major)
Someone (A major) says you're in the wrong place,
my friend (G major)
You'd better leave
(D major) The (G major) only sound you can hear
after (D major) the ambulances (G major) go
Cinderella (D major) sweeping (A major) up
on (G major) Desolation Road (D major)
No, I feel ya, she's (A major) neat the win (D major) dow
For (G major) her, feel so afraid
(D major) On her (A major) 22nd birthday
She already (G major) is an old maid
To (D major) her, death is quite romantic (G major)
She wears an iron vest
(D major) Her (A major) profession's her religion
Her (G major) sin is her lifelessness (D major)
Though (G major) her gaze is fixed
upon Noah's (D major) great rainbow (G major)
She (D major) spends her time
Peep (A major) ing in on (G major) Desolation and hope (D major)
Now this time the moon
Is almost hidden
The stars (G major) are beginning to hide (D major)
The (A major) fortune -telling lady
Has (G major) already taken all her things inside
(D major) Well, except for Cain and Abel
And the (G major) hunchback of Notre
Dame (D major) (A major)
Everybody's either making love
Or (G major) else expecting rain
And (D major) the (G major) good Samaritan, he's dressing,
he's getting ready (D major) for the show (G major)
He's (D major) going down to the carnival (A major) tonight,
on (G major) Desolation Road (D major)
Now Einstein discusses Robin Hood
With his (G major) memories in a trunk (D major) (A major)
Passed this way an hour ago
With (G major) his friend a jealous monkey
(D major) Oh, he looked so immaculately frightful,
as (G major) he bummed a cigarette. (D major)
And (A major) you went on sniffing grain pipes,
(G major) and reciting the alphabet. (D major)
Well, you (G major) wouldn't think to look at him,
but he was fam (D major) ous long ago. (G major)
(D major) We're playing electric (A major) violin
on a (G major) desolation (D major) row
Dr. Phil, he keeps his world
inside (G major) of a leather cup (D major)
(G major) And (A major) all his sexless patients,
they're all (G major) trying to blow it up. (D major)
His nurse, some local loser,
she's in (G major) charge of the cyanide hole. (D major) (A major)
She also keeps the cards that read,
have (G major) mercy on his soul. (D major)
Yes, (G major) they are playing the penny whistle
Yes, you (D major) can hear them (G major) blow
If you (D major) lean your head out (G major) far (A major) enough
on (G major) the distillation room (D major)
Across the street,
they've nailed the curtains
They're (G major) getting ready for the feast
(D major) Phantom (A major) of the opera
In the per (G major) fect image of a priest
And (D major) they're spoon -feeding Casanova
To (G major) get him to feel more as (D major) sured
Then (A major) they'll kill him with self -confidence
Af (G major) ter poisoning him with words
(D major) An d (G major) the phantom's shouting
Two skinny girls
Get out (D major) of here
You don't know (G major) Cas (D major) anova's
just being (A major) punished
We're going to (G major) Decimation Road (D major)
Now at midnight all the agents
an (G major) d the superhuman crew (D major)
(A major) they're going around of everyone
who (G major) knows more than they do (D major)
then they take them to the factory
where (G major) the heart attack machine (D major)
Strapped (A major) across their shoulders
Then (G major) the kerosene (D major)
Is (G major) brought down from the castles
By (D major) insurance men who go (G major)
To make (D major) sure nobody's (A major) escaping
To (G major) desolation road (D major) s
Oh, praise be to Ner (A major) o's Neptune, (D major)
the (G major) Titanic sails at dawn, (D major)
and (A major) everybody's shouting,
which (G major) side are you on? (D major)
Israel Town and T .S. Eliot,
they're (G major) fighting in
the captain's tower (D major) , (G major)
(A major) while Calypso singers laugh at them, (G major)
and fishermen throw flower (D major) s
between (G major) the windows of the sea,
Where (D major) lovely mermaid (G major) s float
An (D major) d no one has to think (A major) too much
About the (G major) desolation road (D major)
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
About (G major) the time the doorknob broke (D major)
When (A major) you asked how I was doing
(G major) Is that some kind of joke? (D major)
All these people that you mention
Yes, (G major) I know that they're quite lame (D major)
(G major) I have (A major) to rearrange their faces
And (G major) give them all another name (D major)
(G major) Right now, I can't read too good,
don't send me (D major) no more letters, no (G major)
(D major) Not unless (G major) you mail (A major) in (G major)
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Desolation Row
Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman
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