Chords for MR TAMBOURINE MAN by Roger McGuinn

_ _ Another artist affected people much like Elvis affected you in the 60s, Dylan came along.
And he actually had a big impact as a songwriter even on the birds.
Oh, yeah.
We did one of his songs _ actually before he was a pop star.
He was a folk writer and folk singer.
_ We're going to play that song in a second.
There's two things I think that we should [G#] mention before [Am] you launch into this.
It was the [F#] first birds hit, correct?
Yes.
This is the first number one hit [B] that you got.
_ You're the only one of the birds playing on the record.
Yes, I was the only one they let [A] play on it. _
I had [N] about five years' experience as a studio musician by that time, and the other guys hadn't.
So they let me play on it.
But it was such a wonderful feeling because I was playing with a band they called the Wrecking [D] Crew
who played on all the Beach Boys hits, all the Jan and Dean, _ everything coming out of Hollywood,
Hal Blaine, [C] and it was Larry Nectal, [N] Jerry Cole.
Larry Nectal was with Brad.
With Brad later, yeah.
[A#] Leon Russell was in this band.
That was a hot [G#m] record.
No wonder why it went to number one.
In 1965, Bob Dylan [G#] said of [B] Roger McGuinn and the birds,
they're doing something new now, but if they don't lose their [N] minds,
they'll come up with something really fantastic.
Bob said that?
Bob said that.
Cool. _
_ [B] _ [C#] Let's go ahead into the song because this is another [Gm] tune that everybody sort of bent out of shape a little bit
as far as the [N] meaning of it.
Well, I just want to, well, the meaning, I was doing it as a prayer.
I was going, hey, God, take me and use me any way you want.
That was my meaning.
I don't know what Bob meant. _
We'll leave that part to Bob.
The song, as famous as it is, and he's going to do it for us right now.
I just want to show you the way we heard it first before we [B] changed it up.
It sounded like, _
_ _ [E] hey, [F#] Mr.
Tambourine [B] Man, play a [E] song for me.
[B] I'm not sleepy and there's no [F#] place I'm going to.
_ _ [E] [F#] Hey, Mr.
Tambourine Man, [B] play a song [E] for me.
[B] In the jingle jangle morning [F#] I'll come _ [B] following you.
And David Crosby was in the band.
He said, I don't like it, man. _ _
[Dm] _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ [C#] He said, no, it's that folky two-four time.
It's never going to play on the radio. _
So I had an [N] idea.
I'd been playing around on my electric 12 with a [Fm] little [F#] _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] hawk-like stuff.
I thought if I put a bit of that on the front of it and maybe kick it up [D] with a
beetle beat, it might come out okay for radio.
[C#] So it came out like this.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ Hey, [G#] Mr. _
Tambourine [C#] Man, play a song [F#] for me.
I'm [C#] not sleepy [F#] and there ain't no [G#] place I'm going to. _ _
_ _ [F#] _ Hey, [G#] Mr. _
Tambourine [C#] Man, play a song [F#] for me.
In [C#] the jingle [F#] jangle morning [G#] I'll come _ [C#] following you.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ Take me for [G#] a trip [C#] upon your magic swirling [F#] ship.
[C#] All my senses have [F#] been stripped.
And [C#] my hands can't [F#] feel to grip.
_ And my [C#] toes to [F#] numb the stiff.
Wait [C#] only for [F#] my boot heels to [G#] be wandering.
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] I'm ready to [G#] go anywhere.
[C#] I'm ready for two [F#] _ things.
[C#] On to my own [F#] parade.
_ Cast [C#] your dance and steal [F#] my way.
_ _ I promise to [G#] go under it.
Help me out on the chorus here, everybody.
[F#] _ _ Hey, Mr.
[G#] _ _
[C#] Tambourine Man, play a [F#] song for me. _
I'm [C#] not sleepy [F#] and there ain't no place [G#] I'm going to.
Let's hear a little harmony.
_ [F#] _ _ Hey, Mr.
[G#] _ _
[C#] Tambourine Man, play a song [F#] for me.
In [C#] the jingle _ [F#] jangle morning I'll [G#] come _ following [C#] _
you.
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