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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
**ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
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-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Closing_Time_) ["transcr." tcg, '86]
-- 4/4 // Key of Dm (transposed from Cm) // Allegro [except Intro]
-- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat
CHORDS--
Dm (xx0231@1) DmBbM7 (xx0231@1) Bb7 (x13131@1) A+ A7+ (x02020@1) Gm7 A7 (x02020@1)
xxo___ x_x___ x_x___ x_x___ xox___ xoxo__ _x____ xoxo_o
1 |||||1 |||||1 |1===1 |1=1=1 |||||1 |||||1 |||||| ||||||
|||2|| |||2|| |||2|| |||||| |||23| ||||2| |||||| ||2|3|
||||3| |3||4| ||||3| ||||3| |||||| |||||| 1=1111 ||||||
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INTRO: (Moderately: ad-lib arpeggios [piano, really])
Dm / Dm / BbM7 / A+ [5x ... 5th x, move A+ fingering up every
2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
(quicker tempo:)
Dm / Dm / Bb7 / A7+ / [2x]
VERSE 1:
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm (xx0231@1)/ Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/
Well, I take 'em by your house about two forty-five--
Dm (xx0231@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/
Sidewalk sundaes, strawberry surprise--
Dm (xx0231@1) / / / Gm7 / / /
I got a cherry popsickle, right on time--
A7 (x02020@1) / / / A7+/ (x02020@1) / /
A big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind--
CHORUS:
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm (xx0231@1)/ Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/
'Cuz I'm an Ice Cream Man--
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm (xx0231@1) / Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/
I'm a one-man band--
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1)/ Dm/ (xx0231@1) Bb7/ (x13131@1)A7+/ (x02020@1) I'm an Ice Cream Man, honey, I'll be good to you.
VERSE 2:
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm (xx0231@1) / Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1) /
If you meet me in the alley, baby, don't you fret--
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm (xx0231@1)/ Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/
Come back around, and don't forget--
Dm (xx0231@1) / / / Gm7 / / /
When you're tired and you're hungry, and you want somethin' cool--
A7 (x02020@1)/ / / A7+/ (x02020@1) / /
Got somethin' better than a swimmin' pool--
CHORUS
LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}
CHORUS
VERSE 3:
Dm (xx0231@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1) /
If you see me comin', 'n'you ain't got no change--
Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) Bb7/ (x13131@1) A7+ (x02020@1) /
Don't worry, baby, it can be arranged--
Dm (xx0231@1) / / / Gm7 / / /
Show me you can smile, baby, just for me--
A7 (x02020@1) / / / A7+ (x02020@1) / / /
Feed you with a drumstick, I'll do it for free--
[no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]
CHORUS
Dm (xx0231@1)/ Dm/ (xx0231@1) Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm/ (xx0231@1)Dm/ (xx0231@1) [... I'll be good to you.] --Be good to you--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm/ (xx0231@1)Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Be good to you--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 (x13131@1)/ A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --Good to you--
Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --I'll be good to you--
Bb7 (x13131@1) / A7+ (x02020@1)/ Dm (xx0231@1) / Dm/ (xx0231@1) --I'll be good to you-- [...fade]
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| Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) |
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| "--If I decide to practice a / o )= slight movement from right |
* to left . . . or from left { /===} to right . . . it's *
| nobody's business but my (=o=/ own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_) |
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