(intro) E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 E They’re selling postcards of the hanging A E They’re painting the passports brown B7 The beauty parlor is filled with sailors A E Esus4 The circus is in town E Here comes the blind commissioner A E They’ve got him in a trance B7 One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker A E The other is in his pants A And the riot squad they’re restless E A They need somewhere to go E B7 As Lady and I look out tonight A E Esus4 E Esus4 From Desolation Row E Cinderella, she seems so easy A E “It takes one to know one," she smiles B7 And puts her hands in her back pockets A E Esus4 Bette Davis style E And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning A E “You Belong to Me I Believe" B7 And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend A E You better leave" A And the only sound that’s left E A After the ambulances go E B7 Is Cinderella sweeping up A E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 On Desolation Row E Now the moon is almost hidden A E The stars are beginning to hide B7 The fortune-telling lady A E Esus4 Has even taken all her things inside E Esus4 All except for Cain and Abel A E And the hunchback of Notre Dame B7 Everybody is making love A E Or else expecting rain A And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing E A He’s getting ready for the show E B7 He’s going to the carnival tonight A E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 On Desolation Row E Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window A E For her I feel so afraid B7 On her twenty-second birthday A E She already is an old maid E To her, death is quite romantic A E She wears an iron vest B7 Her profession’s her religion A E Her sin is her lifelessness A And though her eyes are fixed upon E A Noah’s great rainbow E B7 She spends her time peeking A E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 Into Desolation Row E Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood A E With his memories in a trunk B7 Passed this way an hour ago A E With his friend, a jealous monk E He looked so immaculately frightful A E As he bummed a cigarette B7 Then he went off sniffing drainpipes A E And reciting the alphabet A You would not think to look at him E A But he was famous long ago E B7 For playing the electric violin A E Esus4 E Esus4 On Desolation Row E Dr. Filth, he keeps his world A E Inside of a leather cup B7 But all his sexless patients A E Esus4 They’re trying to blow it up E Esus4 Now his nurse, some local loser A E She’s in charge of the cyanide hole B7 And she also keeps the cards that read A E “Have Mercy on His Soul" A They all play on pennywhistles E A You can hear them blow E B7 If you lean your head out far enough A E Esus4 E Esus4 E From Desolation Row E Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains A E They’re getting ready for the feast B7 The Phantom of the Opera A E In a perfect image of a priest E They’re spoonfeeding Casanova A E To get him to feel more assured B7 Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence A E Esus4 E After poisoning him with words A And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls E A “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know E B7 Casanova is just being punished for going A E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 To Desolation Row" E At midnight all the agents A E And the superhuman crew B7 Come out and round up everyone A E Esus4 That knows more than they do E Esus4 Then they bring them to the factory A E Where the heart-attack machine B7 Is strapped across their shoulders A E Esus4 And then the kerosene A Is brought down from the castles E A By insurance men who go E B7 Check to see that nobody is escaping A E Esus4 E Esus4 To Desolation Row E Praise be to Nero’s Neptune A E The Titanic sails at dawn B7 Everybody’s shouting A E Esus4 “Which Side Are You On?" E And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot A E Fighting in the captain’s tower B7 While calypso singers laugh at them A E And fishermen hold flowers A Between the windows of the sea E A Where lovely mermaids flow E B7 And nobody has to think too much A E About Desolation Row E Yes, I received your letter yesterday A E (About the time the doorknob broke) B7 When you asked how I was doing A E Was that some kind of joke? E All these people that you mention A E Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame B7 I had to rearrange their faces A E And give them all another name A Right now I can’t read too good E A Don’t send me no more letters, no E B7 Not unless you mail them A E Esus4 E Esus4 E From Desolation Row
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