STUCK INSIDE A MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN  (Bob Dylan) 

Capot on fourth fret

INTRO:  C  Csus4     C  Csus4

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Oh the ragman draws circles up and down the block.
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I'd ask him what the matter is but I know that he don't talk.
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And the ladies treat me kindly and furnish me with tape
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But deep inside my heart     I know I can't escape


Em                                          C      G      Am
Oh Mama, can this really be the end to be stuck inside of Mobile
 C        F              C
with the Memphis blues again


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Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells.
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Speaking to a french girl, who says she knows me well.
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And I would send a message to find out if she's talked,
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But the post office has been stolen and the mail box is locked.


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Mona tried to tell me to stay far away from the train line.
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She said that all the railroad men just drink up your blood like wine.
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An' I said "Oh, I didn't know that but then again there's only one I've met
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An' he just smoked my eyelids an' punched my cigarette"


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Grandpa died last week and now he's buried in the rock
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But everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked.
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But me I expected it to happen I knew he'd lost control
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When he built a fire on main street and shot it full of holes.


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Now the senator came down here showing everyone his gun.
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Handing out free tickets to the wedding of his son.
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An' me I nearly got busted an wouldn't it be my luck
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To get caught without a ticket and be discovered beneath a truck


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Now the tea preacher looked so baffled when I asked him why he dressed
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With twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest
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But he cursed when I proved to him then I whispered not even you can hide.
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You see you're just like me I hope your satisfied


         C                  Am             C               Am
Now the rainman gave me two cures then he said "Jump right in"
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The one was Texas medicine the other railroad gin.
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An like a fool I mixed them an' it strangled up my mind
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An' now people just get uglier an' I have no sense of time.


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When Ruthie says come see her in her honky-tonk lagoon,
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Where I can watch her waltz for free 'neath her Panamanian moon.
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An' I say, "Aw come on now you know you know about my dedutante."
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An' she says, "Your debutante knows just what you need but I know what you want."


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Now the bricks lay on Grand Street where the neon madmen climb
      C                Am                  F            G
They all fall there so perfectly. It all seems so well timed.
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An' here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price
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You have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice