Key: A major
Verse 1
up there hanging,
their paint and their passports brown.
The beauty parlour's filled with sailors,
D
Eb
the circus is in town.
they've put him in a trench.
Eb
A
One hand is tied to the tight rope walker,
they need somewhere to go
Eb
A
Bbdim
A
As Maid and I look out tonight
from Desolation Row
Eb
G
A
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Oh! Oh! Desolation!
Cinderella, she seems so easy,
it takes one to know she smiles
Eb
A
An d puts her hands in
her back pockets,
Betty Davis style
Eb
A
An d in comes Romeo, he's moaning,
you belong to me, I believe
Eb
A
And someone says,
you're in the wrong place,
my friend, you'd better leave
And the only time that's left
after the ambulances go
Eb
A
Is Cinderella sweeping up
E
A
on Desolation Row
Now the moon is almost hidden
is taking all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
and the hunchback of Notre Dame
Eb
A
Everyone is making love
or else expecting raid
Eb
A
And the good Samaritan,
he's dressing,
he's getting ready for the show
Eb
A
He's going to carnival tonight
Eb
G
D
A
G
on Desolation Row
for her I feel so afraid
On her 22nd birthday
she already is an old, maid
To her death is quite romantic,
she wears an iron vest
G
A
Her professions, her religion,
her sins, her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed
upon Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
into Desolation Row
Desolation!
Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
with his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
as he bummed a cigarette
Eb
A
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
and reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him,
but he was famous long ago
Eb
A
For playing the electric violin
D
Eb
F#m
on Desolation Road
A
F#m
A
Interlude 1
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A
Verse 2
inside of a leather cup
Eb
A
But all his sexless patients,
they're trying to blow it up
Eb
A
Now his nurse, I'm like a loser,
have mercy on his soul
Eb
A
They all play on penny whistles,
D
Eb
A
from Desolation Row
From Desolation Row
Across the street
they've nailed the curtains
G#
Eb
They're getting ready for the feast
Adim
A
The phantom of the opera,
a perfect image of a priest
They're spoon -feeding Casanova
to get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with
self -confidence
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G#
Eb
after poisoning him with words
A
F#m
And for fat and sharting to skinny girls,
Eb
A
know
Casanova's just being punished
Eb
A
D
A
for going to Desolation Row!
Now at midnight all the agents
everyone
that knows more than they do
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G#
It's brought down from the castles
F#m
G#
by insurance men who go
Eb
A
Check to see that no one's escaping
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Eb
G
A
G#
A
to Desolation Row
Praise be to Nero's Neptune,
the titanic sails adorn
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A
And everybody's shouting,
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A
which side are you on?
Adim
G#
And Ezra Pound and T .S. Eliot
fightin' in the Captain's Tower
Adim
A
Adim
While Ca lypso singers
and fishermen hold flowers
A
B
Between the windows of the sea
about Desolation Row
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
I received your letter yesterday,
Adim
G#
Ebdim
that was by the time the dawn broke
yes I know them, they're quite lame
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B
Right now I cannot reach it good,
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Ebdim
don't send me no more letters, no
from Desolation GO!
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