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Man on the Street - Bob Dylan
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Bob Dylan
Man on the Street (1961)
(Bob Dylan)
From: "The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3. 1961-1991 [Disc 1]"
Very laconic and beautiful. The guitar alternates between two main patterns
(pattern 1 featuring slight variations here and there, pattern 2 pretty much
stays the same throughout the song). The bass is played with the thumb and
the chords are strummed.
Pattern 1
G [2/4]
e|---3--------3---|----3-------3---|----3-------3---|--------|
B|---3--------3---|----3-------3---|----3-------3---|--------|
G|---0--------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|--------|
D|--------0-------|----------------|--------0-------|----0---|
A|----------------|-------0h2------|----------------|--------|
E|3---------------|3---------------|3---------------|3-------|
[4/4] Em
e|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
B|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
G|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
D|----2-----------|----2-------2---|
A|------------0h2-|----------------|
E|0---------------|0---------------|
Pattern 2
G [2/4]
e|---3--------3---|---3--------3---|---3--------3---|----3---|
B|---3--------3---|---3--------3---|---3--------3---|----3---|
G|---0--------0---|---0--------0---|---0--------0---|----0---|
D|--------0-------|2-------0-------|----------------|----2---|
A|----------------|----------------|0h2-------------|2-------|
E|3---------------|----------------|-------3--------|--------|
[4/4] Em
e|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
B|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
G|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
D|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
A|----------------|----------------|
E|0---------------|0---------------|
CODA
e|----0-----------|--------0-------|
B|----0-----------|--------0-------|
G|----0-----------|--------0-------|
D|----2-----------|--------2-------|
A|------------0h2-|--------2-------|
E|0---------------|0-------0-------|
INTRO | G | G |2/4 Em |4/4 G | G |
[Harp]
VERSE 1 (Pattern 1 / Pattern 1)
I'll sing you a song it ain't very long,
About an old man who never done wrong.
How he died nobody can say,
They found him dead in the street one day.
VERSE 2 (Pattern 1 / Pattern 2)
And the crowd, they gathered one fine morn,
At the man whose clothes 'n' shoes were torn.
There on the sidewalk he did lay,
They stopped 'n' stared and they went their way.
| | | |2/4 |4/4 | | | |
[Harp]
VERSE 3 (Pattern 1 / Pattern 2)
Well, the p'liceman come and he looked around,
"Get up, old man, or I'm a-takin' you down."
He jabbed him once with his bully club
The old man then rolled off the curb.
VERSE 4 (Pattern 2 / Pattern 2)
Well, he jabbed him again and loudly said,
"Call the wagon; this man is dead."
The wagon come, they loaded him in,
I never saw the man again.
| | | |2/4 |4/4 | |
[Harp]
| | | |2/4 |4/4 | | | |
[Harp]
VERSE 4 (Pattern 2 / Pattern 2)
I'm singin' my song, it ain't very long,
About an old man who never done wrong.
How he died nobody could say,
They found him dead in the street one day.