• Song:

    Man On The Street

  • Artist:

    Bob Dylan

  • Album:

    The Witmark Demos: 1962...

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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
  Em
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)
     G        
I'll sing you a song it ain't very long,
                                Em
About an old man who never done wrong.
G
How he died nobody can say,
                                      Em
They found him dead in the street one day.


VERSE 2 (Pattern 1 / Pattern 2)
        G  
And the crowd, they gathered one fine morn,
                                        Em
At the man whose clothes 'n' shoes were torn.
G
There on the sidewalk he did lay,
                                            Em
They stopped 'n' stared and they went their way.


| G | G | G |2/4 G |4/4 Em | Em | G | G |
[Harp]


VERSE 3 (Pattern 1 / Pattern 2)
          G
Well, the p'liceman come and he looked around,
                                      Em
"Get up, old man, or I'm a-takin' you down."
   G
He jabbed him once with his bully club
                                Em
The old man then rolled off the curb.


VERSE 4 (Pattern 2 / Pattern 2)
         G
Well, he jabbed him again and loudly said,
                             Em
"Call the wagon; this man is dead."
    G
The wagon come, they loaded him in,
                     Em
I never saw the man again.


| G | G | G |2/4 G |4/4 Em | Em |
[Harp]
| G | G | G |2/4 G |4/4 Em | Em | Em | Em |
[Harp]


VERSE 4 (Pattern 2 / Pattern 2)
    G
I'm singin' my song, it ain't very long,
                                Em
About an old man who never done wrong.
G
How he died nobody could say,
                                      Em [CODA]
They found him dead in the street one day.
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