Eyolf Østrem

A

         A                          G
Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore,
                        A
My flashlight's from Taiwan,
   A                   G
My tablecloth's from Malaysia,
                             A
My belt buckle's from the Amazon.
               A                                 G
You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines
                                  A
And the car I drive is a Chevrolet,
       A                            G
It was put together down in Argentina
                               A

Background riff (intro is the first line few times around):

C                    Am                     G                C
Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
       C            Am              G
And if things don't change soon, he will.
    F                    C
Oh, man has invented his doom,
                            F
First step was touching the moon.

               Am /g F       Am /g F
Now, there's a woman   on my block,
         Am /g    F                   Am /g  F
She just sit there as the night grows still.

E

          D            A                    E
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
    D       A                 E
His enemies say he's on their land.
     G          D                           A
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
       A            E         G           D
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
                      A          D A      D A     D A
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.

C
          C                    Am
Well, the pressure's down, the boss ain't here,
        Am   G      F
He gone North for a while
              C              Am
They say that vanity got the best of him
       Am        G       F
But he sure left here in style.
Am                   Dm
By the way, that's a cute hat,
         Am                   Dm
And that smile's so hard to resist
C        G/b             Am  /g  F
what's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

You know, I once knew a woman who looked like you,
She wanted a whole man, not just a half,

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A7
I live on a street named after a Saint

Women in the churches wear powder and paint
          D7
Where the Jews and Catholics and the Muslim all pray
A7
I can tell a Proddy *) from a mile away
Em7add11/b          D7
Goodbye Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Reed indeed
             A [riff]
Give me that old time religion, it's just what I need

D                 D/c  D              D/c
Cold black glass don't make no mirror
D                  D/c D             D/c
Cold black water don't make no tears
G
You say you love me with what may be love
D
Don't you remember makin' baby love?
Em
Yes, you got your steam drill,
           F#m
now you're lookin' for some kid
Em
To get it to work for you
          F#m
like your nine-pound hammer did
    D Dadd2     D   Dadd2     D G         D   Dadd2
But I know that you know that I know that you show
Em           F#m             A
Something is tearing up your mind.

Bringing It All Back Home version

|: D        D Dsus2 D :|

G        A               D               G
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
        D                G               A         Asus4 A
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
G        A               D               G
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
       D             G                 A         D   Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Album Version

Gaslight II version

From the second of the three concerts at the Gaslight Cafe, late october 1962. First known performance of this song. The other early performances are all similar to this; some use the simple drop D tuning.

Double drop D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-d’)
Capo 5th fret (sounding key G minor)

Chords: