D
They're selling postcards of the hanging.
G D
They're painting the passports brown.
A7
The beauty parlour's filled with sailors.
G D
The circus is in town.
D
Here comes the blind commissioner.
G D
They've got him in a trance.
A7
One hand's tied to the tightrope walker.
G D
The other is in his pants.
G
And the riot squad they're restless
D G
They need some where to go.
D A7
As lady and I look out tonight
G D
On Desolation Row.
D
Cinderella she seem so easy.
G D
It takes on to know one she smiles.
A7
Then puts her hand in her back pocket,
G D
Betty Davis style.
D
Then in comes Romeo he's moaning.
G D
You Belong to me I believe.
A7
And someone says your in the wrong place my friend
G D
You better leave.
G
And the only sound that's left
D G
After the ambulances go.
D A7
Is Cinderella sweeping up
G D
On Desolation Row.
D
Now the moon is almost hidden
G D
The stars are beginning to hide
A7
The fortune telling lady
G D
Has already taken all her things inside.
D
All except for Cane and Able
G D
And the Hunch Back of Notre Dame
A7
Everyone is making love
G D
Or else expecting rain
G
And the good Samaritan he's dressing
D G
He's gettin ready for the show.
D A7
He's going to the carnival
G D
Tonight on Desolation Row.
D
Now Ophelia she's 'neath the window.
G D
For her I feel so afraid.
A7
On her twenty-second birthday
G D
She already is an old maid.
D
To her death is quite romantic.
G D
She wears an iron vest.
A7
Her profession's her religion,
G D
Her sin is her lifelessness.
G
And though her eyes are fixed upon
D G
Noah's great rainbow
D A7
She spends her time peeking
G D
Into Desolation Row.
D
Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
G D
With his memories in a trunk
A7
Passed this way an hour ago
G D
With his friend a jealous monk.
D
He looked so frightful
G D
As he bummed a cigarette
A7
Then went off sniffing drain pipes
G D
And reciting the alphabet.
G
No you would not think to look at him
D G
That he was famous long ago
D A7
For playing electric violin
G D
On Desolation Row.
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D
Doctor filth he keeps his word
G D
Inside a leather cup
A7
But all his sexless patients
G D
Are trying to blow it up.
D
Now his nurse a local looser
G D
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
A7
And she also keeps the cards that read
G D
Have mercy on his soul.
G
They all play on penny whistles
D G
You can hear them blow
D A7
If you lean your head out far enough
G D
From Desolation Row
D
Across the street they've nailed the curtains
G D
They're gettin ready for the feast
A7
The phantom of the opera
G D
A perfect image of a priest
D
They're spoon feedin Casanova
G D
To get him to feel more assured
A7
Then they'll killed him with self confidence
G D
After poisoning him with words
G
And the phantom shouting to skinning girls
D G
Get outta her don't you know
D A7
Casanova is just being punished
G D
For going to Desolation Row.
D
Now at midnight all the agents
G D
And the superhuman crews
A7
Round up everyone
G D
That knows more than they do.
D
Then they bring them to the factory
G D
Where the heart attack machines
A7
Is strapped across their shoulders
G D
And then the kerosene
G
Is brought down from the castles
D G
By insurance men that go
D A7
Check to see that nobody is escaping
G D
To Desolation Row
D
Praise be to Nero's Neptune
G D
The Titanic sails at dawn
A7
And everybody shouting
G D
Which side are you on
D
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
G D
Fighting in the captains tower
A7
While calypso signers laugh at them
G D
And fishermen hold flowers
G
Between the windows of the sea
D G
Where lovely mermaids flow
D A7
And nobody has to think too much
G D
About Desolation Row
D
Yes I received your letter yesterday
G D
About the time the door knob broke.
A7
When you asked me how I was
G D
Was that some kind of joke.
D
All those people that you mention
G D
Yes I know them they're quite lame.
A7
I had to rearrange their faces
G D
And give them all another name.
G
Right now I can't read too good
D G
Don't send me no more letters no.
D A7
Not unless you mail them from
G D
Desolation Row.
