Bob Dylan – Bob Dylans 115Th Dream (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: "Bringing It All back Home" (1965) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS
      E-A-D-G-B-e
C/G   3-x-2-0-1-0
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      G      C/G    G
I was riding on the Mayflower

       G
When I thought I spied some land ...
[Intro] | G | % | [Verse 1]
      G
I was riding on the Mayflower

       G
When I thought I spied some land

  G
I yelled for Captain Arab

  G
I have yuh understand

         C
Who came running to the deck

       C
Said, “Boys, forget the whale

     G
Look on over yonder

        G
Cut the engines, change the sail

D
Haul on the bowline”

   D
We sang that melody

     G
Like all tough sailors do

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When they are far away at sea
[Verse 2]
    G
 “I think I’ll call it America”

  G
I said as we hit land

  G
I took a deep breath

       G
I fell down, I could not stand

C
Captain Arab he started

C
Writing up some deeds

   G
He said, “Let’s set up a fort

          G
And start buying the place with beads”

D
Just then this cop comes down the street

D
Crazy as a loon

   G
He throws us all in jail

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For carryin’ harpoons
[Verse 3]
   G
Ah me I busted out

      G
Don’t even ask me how

  G
I went to get some help

         G
I walked by a Guernsey cow

      C
Who directed me down

       C
To the Bowery slums

      G
Where people carried signs around

G
Saying, “Ban the bums”

D
I jumped right into line

           D
Sayin’, “I hope that I’m not late”

       G
When I realized I hadn’t eaten

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For five days straight
[Verse 4]
  G
I went into a restaurant

G
Lookin’ for the cook

  G
I told them I was the editor

     G
Of a famous etiquette book

    C
The waitress he was handsome

          C
He wore a powder blue cape

  G
I ordered some suzette, I said

            G
 “Could you please make that crepe”

D
Just then the whole kitchen exploded

             D
From boilin’ fat

G
Food was flying everywhere

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And I left without my hat
[Verse 5]
     G
Now, I didn’t mean to be nosy

      G
But I went into a bank

   G
To get some bail for Arab

            G
And all the boys back in the tank

     C
They asked me for some collateral

     C
And I pulled down my pants

     G
They threw me in the alley

        G
When up comes this girl from France

      D
Who invited me to her house

  D
I went, but she had a friend

    G
Who knocked me out and robbed my boots

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And I was on the street again
[Verse 6]
        G
Well, I rapped upon a house

         G
With the U.S. flag upon display

  G
I said, “Could you help me out

           G
I got some friends down the way”

    C
The man says, “Get out of here

     C
I’ll tear you limb from limb”

             G
I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”

   G
He said, “You’re not Him

D
Get out of here before I break your bones

             D
I ain’t your pop”

    G
I decided to have him arrested

           G
And I went looking for a cop
[Interlude]
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(harmonica)

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(harmonica)
[Verse 7]
  G
I ran right outside

      G
And I hopped inside a cab

  G
I went out the other door

     G
This Englishman said, “Fab”

      C
As he saw me leap a hot dog stand

      C
And a chariot that stood

G
Parked across from a building

     G
Advertising brotherhood

  D
I ran right through the front door

       D
Like a hobo sailor does

           G
But it was just a funeral parlor

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And the man asked me who I was
[Verse 8]
    G
I repeated that my friends

            G
Were all in jail, with a sigh

   G
He gave me his card

          G
He said, “Call me if they die”

  C
I shook his hand and said goodbye

    C
Ran out to the street

       G
When a bowling ball came down the road

    G
And knocked me off my feet

  D
A pay phone was ringing

   D
It just about blew my mind

       G
When I picked it up and said hello

     G                             | G | % | % | % |
This foot came through the line
[Verse 9]
      G
Well, by this time I was fed up

   G
At tryin’ to make a stab

   G
At bringin’ back any help

       G
For my friends and Captain Arab

    C
I decided to flip a coin

     C
Like either heads or tails

      G
Would let me know if I should go

        G
Back to ship or back to jail

   D
So I hocked my sailor suit

      D
And I got a coin to flip

   G
It came up tails, it rhymed with sails

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So I made it back to the ship
[Verse 10]
      G
Well, I got back and took

            G
The parkin’ ticket off the mast

      G
I was ripping it to shreds

          G
When this coastguard boat went past

     C
They asked me my name

    C
And I said, “Captain Kidd”

     G
They believed me but

     G
They wanted to know

      G
What exactly that I did

  D                     D
I said for the Pope of Eruke I was employed

     G
They let me go right away

          G
They were very paranoid
[Interlude]
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(harmonica)
[Verse 11]
          G
Well, the last I heard of Arab

       G
He was stuck on a whale

        G
That was married to the deputy

G
Sheriff of the jail

        C
But the funniest thing was

     C
When I was leavin’ the bay

  G
I saw three ships a-sailin’

          G
They were all heading my way

  D
I asked the captain what his name was

                D
And how come he didn’t drive a truck

            G
He said his name was Columbus

G
I just said, “Good luck”
[Outro]
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(harmonica, repeat and fade)